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14th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment; October 9, 1864 – October 29, 1864; commanded by Colonel William Gordon [1] 15th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment 16th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press), 2014. Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.
The 14th Kansas Cavalry was organized at Fort Scott and Leavenworth, Kansas in April 1863 as a battalion serving as escort for Maj. Gen. James G. Blunt.It was later organized as a regiment at Fort Scott in December 1863 and mustered in for three years under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Moonlight.
The 1st Kansas Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.On August 10, 1861, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, the regiment suffered 106 soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded, one of the highest numbers of fatalities suffered by any Union infantry regiment in a single engagement during the American Civil War.
This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).
The first engagement by African-American soldiers against Confederate forces during the Civil War was at the Battle of Island Mound in Bates County, Missouri on October 28–29, 1862. African Americans, mostly escaped slaves, had been recruited into the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers.
Thomas Martin, Private, 2nd Kansas Cavalry, Company C, Saline County Kansas, Salina, KS, prominent farmer and Kansas pioneer and Irish immigrant. Severely wounded in the arm at the Battle of Prairie Grove AR, Reed Mountain. His brother was in the Union Army and died during the Civil War, Ohio 43rd, Infantry.
The 6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 6th Kansas Cavalry at the Battle of Honey Springs , July 1863. Engraving based on sketch by James R. O'Neill .