United States: Continental Army and Militia Regiments 1776

United States: Continental Army and Militia Regiments 1776
v.1.0 June 16, 2002

Ravi Rikhye

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Note

The Revolutionary War army had two types of regiments. The Continental Regiments were the equivalent of today’s regular army volunteers, even though they were recruited locally. The sole true mixed regiment was the 1^st Continental. The Militia Regiments were state forces serving for 4 months at a time, and usually conscripted. They can be compared to today’s National Guard. Generally militia protected its own state, but could be ordered elsewhere to serve with the Continental Army.

The Continental Army as approved for 1776 was to consist of 20,000 men in 27 regiments, each of eight companies. Regiments were numbered according to the seniority of their colonels. Details can be found at www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/revwar , the site for the US Army’s Center for Military History. Quotas were set on the basis of population, which at this time amounted to about 4.5 million for the settler population.

Continental Regiments	State
1^st	4 companies Pennsylvania, 4 Virginia & Maryland
2^nd	New Hampshire
3^rd	Massachusetts
4^th	??
5^th	New Hampshire
6^th	Massachusetts
7^th	Massachusetts
8^th	New Hampshire
9^th	Rhode Island
10^th	Connecticut
11^th	Rhode Island
12^th	Massachusetts
13^th	Massachusetts
14^th	Massachusetts
15^th	Massachusetts
16^th	Massachusetts
17^th	Connecticut
18^th	Massachusetts
19^th	Connecticut
20^th	Connecticut
21^st	Massachusetts
22^nd	Connecticut
23^rd	Massachusetts
24^th	Massachusetts
25^th	Massachusetts
26^th	Massachusetts
27^th	Massachusetts

Canadian Regiments
1^st
2^nd

Militia Regiments	Incomplete list
1^st Georgia Infantry	1775
2^nd Georgia Infantry	1776
3^rd Georgia Infantry	1776
4^th Georgia Infantry	1777
5^th Georgia Horse Rangers	1776
1^st South Carolina Infantry
2^nd South Carolina Infantry
3^rd South Carolina Rangers
4^th South Caroline Artillery
5^th South Caroline Infantry
6^th South Caroline Infantry
1^st North Carolina
2^nd North Carolina
3^rd North Carolina
4^th North Carolina
5^th North Carolina
6^th North Carolina
7^th North Carolina
8^th North Carolina
9^th North Carolina
10^th North Carolina
1^st Virginia
2^nd Virginia
3^rd Virginia
4^th Virginia
5^th Virginia
6^th Virginia
7^th Virginia
8^th Virginia
9^th Virginia
10^th Virginia
11^th Virginia
1^st Maryland
2^nd Maryland
3^rd Maryland
4^th Maryland
5^th Maryland
1^st Pennsylvania
2^nd Pennsylvania
3^rd Pennsylvania
4^th Pennsylvania
5^th Pennsylvania
6^th Pennsylvania
7^th Pennsylvania
8^th Pennsylvania
9^th Pennsylvania
10^th Pennsylvania
11^th Pennsylvania
1^st New Jersey
2^nd New Jersey
3^rd New Jersey
4^th New Jersey
1^st New York
2^nd New York
3^rd New York
4^th New York
5^th New York
6^th New York
7^th New York
8^th New York
9^th New York
10^th New York
11^th New York
12^th New York
13^th New York
14^th New York
15^th New York
16^th New York
17^th New York
1^st Connecticut
2^nd Connecticut
3^rd Connecticut
4^th Connecticut
5^th Connecticut
6^th Connecticut
7^th Connecticut
8^th Connecticut
9^th Connecticut
10^th Connecticut
11^th Connecticut
12^th Connecticut
13^th Connecticut
14^th Connecticut
15^th Connecticut
16^th Connecticut
17^th Connecticut
18^th Connecticut
19^th Connecticut
12^th Connecticut
20^th Connecticut
21^st Connecticut
22^nd Connecticut
23^rd Connecticut
24^th Connecticut
25^th Connecticut
26^th Connecticut
1^st New Hampshire
2^nd New Hampshire
3^rd New Hampshire
1^st Massachusetts
2^nd Massachusetts
3^rd Massachusetts
4^th Massachusetts
5^th Massachusetts
6^th Massachusetts
7^th Massachusetts
8^th Massachusetts
9^th Massachusetts
10^th Massachusetts
11^th Massachusetts
?? Delaware

Notes

Virginia may have had more regiments
No information at this time on the Delaware regiments
Some Connecticut regiments may have been merged