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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
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.
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.
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 2nd Kansas Infantry (Colored) was organized at Fort Scott, Kansas, and mustered in for three years. It mustered in by individual companies beginning in August 1863 at Fort Scott and completed muster-in at Fort Smith, Arkansas , on November 1, 1863, under the command of Colonel Samuel Johnson Crawford .
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 2nd Kansas Infantry Regiment was primarily recruited in May 1861, for service in the Union Army during the American Civil War; [1] the regiment's men were drawn from across the state. [2] It was organized for a service period of 90 days. [3] After gathering at Lawrence, Kansas, the unit entered Union service on June 20. [1]