(12) Their commander, Colonel Jeremiah 
Olney, praised the Regiment for ‘‘faithfully pre-
serving in the best of causes, in every stage of serv-
ice, with unexampled fortitude and patience through 
all the danger and toils of a long and severe war’’. 
(13) Afterwards, some veterans of the First 
Rhode Island Regiment had to consistently resist ef-
forts at re-enslavement and fought for back wages 
from the Rhode Island General Assembly. 
(14) According to the Rhode Island State Ar-
chives, the First Rhode Island Regiment included at 
least the following soldiers: Babcock, Priamus (Pri-
mus); Bent, Prince; Bours, Cato; Brown, Priamus 
(Primus); Burk, Africa; Burroughs, John; Car-
penter, Cudgo; Champlin, Dick; Champlin, Jack; 
Champlin, July; Champlin, Newport; Champlin, 
Sharper; 
Champlin, 
York; 
Clark, 
James; 
Coddington, Jack; Fones, Jack; Gardner, Cuff; 
Gardner, 
Hercules; 
Gardner, 
Minkl; 
Gardner, 
Preamus (Primus); Gardner, Rutter; Gray, Ebe-
nezer; Green, Cuff; Greene, Cato; Greene, Jack; 
Greene, Pero; Greene, William; Hammond, Prince; 
Harriss, Cesar; Hazard, Backus; Hazard, Jabin; 
Hazard, Jacob; Hazard, Peter; Hazard, Peter; 
Lefavour, Thom; Mason, Warsen; Mawney, Cyrus; 
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Minturn, Jack; Mowrey, Pero; Nichols, Thomas; 
Perry, Ganset; Phillips, Philow; Pierce, Titus; Pot-
ter, David; Randall, Prince; Rhodes, Bristol; Rhodes, 
Priamus; Rhodes, Richard; Rhodes, Samuel; Rich-
mond, Ebenezer; Robinson, Mingo; Rodman, Isaac; 
Rodman, Mingo; Rodman, Prince; Rose, Cesar; 
Saltonstall, Brittain; Saunders, Sampson; Sheldon, 
Cesar; Slave; Slave; Smith, Juba; Sweeling, Query; 
Talbot, Sigby; Tanner, Quam; Tillinghast, Cuff; 
Updike, Cesar; Updike, Moses; Vaughan, Prince; 
Vernon, Cato; Watson, Fortune; Wells, Cesar; 
Wickes, Nat; and Willbour, Boston. 
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) AWARD
AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of the 
House of Representatives and the President pro tempore 
of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the 
award, on behalf of the Congress, of a single gold medal 
of appropriate design to the First Rhode Island Regiment, 
collectively in recognition of their dedicated service during 
the Revolutionary War. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For the purposes of the 
award referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the 
Treasury (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall strike the gold medal with suitable emblems, 
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devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Sec-
retary. 
(c) SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Following the award of the 
gold medal in honor of the First Rhode Island Regi-
ment of the Revolutionary War under subsection (a), 
the gold medal shall be given to the Smithsonian In-
stitution, where it will be displayed as appropriate 
and made available for research. 
(2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 
Congress that the Smithsonian Institution should 
make the gold medal received under paragraph (1) 
available for display elsewhere, particularly at other 
appropriate locations associated with the First 
Rhode Island Regiment of the Revolutionary War. 
SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
Under such regulations as the Secretary may pre-
scribe, the Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medal struck under section 3, at a price 
sufficient to cover the costs of the medals, including labor, 
materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses. 
SEC. 5. STATUS OF MEDALS. 
(a) NATIONAL MEDALS.—Medals struck pursuant to 
this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 
of title 31, United States Code. 
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(b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 
5134 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck 
under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items. 
Æ 
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