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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
At the outbreak of the American Civil War in April 1861, Kansas was the newest U.S. state, admitted just months earlier in January. The state had formally rejected slavery by popular vote and vowed to fight on the side of the Union, though ideological divisions with neighboring Missouri, a slave state, had led to violent conflict in previous years and persisted for the duration of the war.
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 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.
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.
Two wars have directly affected the region, the American Civil War (1860–1865) and the Plains Indian Wars. Kansas was also greatly affected during the Bleeding Kansas period (1855–1861) in which settlers and outsiders fought to determine whether the territory would become a free or slave state .
The 12th Kansas Infantry was organized at Paola, Kansas, in September 1862. It mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel Charles W. Adams. The regiment was attached to Department of Kansas to June 1863. Unattached, District of the Border, Department of Missouri, to January 1864.
The 2nd Regiment of Kansas State Militia was organized in Shawnee County, Kansas, on October 12, 1864, to defend the state against Price's Missouri Raid. The regiment consisted of 561 men, many mounted on their own farm horses.