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Kansas in the Civil War

Regiments

 * Post Battery, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Artillery


 * "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * 1st Regiment, Kansas Infantry


 * Organized at Camp Lincoln, Fort Leavenworth, May 20 to June 3, 1861.
 * Mustered out June 19, 1864. Veterans on duty in District of Vicksburg, Miss., till August, 1864. Ordered to Morganza, La., July 29. Operations in vicinity of Morganza September 16-25. Near Alexandria September 20. Atchatalaya October 5. Ordered to White River, Ark., October 7, thence to Little Rock, Ark., December 7. Duty there as Headquarters Guard and escort, Dept. of Arkansas, till August, 1865. Mustered out August 30, 1865.


 * 1st Regiment, Indian Home Guards, Kansas Infantry


 * Organized at Leroy, Kansas, May 22, 1862.
 * Mustered out May 31, 1865.


 * 1st Independent Battery, Kansas Light Artillery


 * Organized at Mound City July 24, 1861.
 * Mustered out July 17, 1865.


 * 2nd Regiment, Kansas Cavalry


 * Organized at Kansas City as 12th Kansas Infantry.
 * At Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, designation changed to 9th Kansas Infantry February 4, 1862, and to 2nd Cavalry March 5, 1862.
 * Mustered out August 17, 1865.


 * 2nd Regiment, Kansas Infantry (3 months, 1861)


 * Organized at Lawrence for three months May, 1861. Mustered in at Kansas City June 20, 1861.
 * Mustered out October 31, 1861.


 * 2nd Regiment, Indian Home Guards, Kansas Infantry


 * Organized on Big Creek and at Five-Mile Creek, Kansas, June 22 to July 18, 1862.
 * Mustered out May 31, 1865.


 * 2nd Independent Battery, Kansas Light Artillery


 * Organized at Fort Scott and mustered in September 10, 1862.
 * Battery mustered out August 11, 1865.


 * 2nd Independent Battery, Kansas Light Artillery (Hopkins')


 * Attached to 2nd Kansas Cavalry. See 3rd Battery.


 * 3rd Regiment, Kansas Infantry


 * Organization not completed. Consolidated with 4th Kansas Infantry to form 10th Kansas Infantry April 3, 1862.


 * 3rd Regiment, Indian Home Guards, Kansas Infantry


 * Organized at Carthage, Mo., September 16, 1862.
 * Mustered out May 31, 1865.


 * 3rd Independent Battery, Kansas Light Artillery
 * Organized as Company "B," 2nd Kansas Cavalry, December 9, 1861. Organized as a Battery October 27, 1862, with guns captured at Old Fort Wayne, and designated as Hopkins' Kansas Battery. Designated 3rd Battery October 1, 1863.
 * Mustered out January 19, 1865. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 2nd Kansas Battery.


 * 4th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
 * Organization not completed. Consolidated with 3rd Kansas Infantry to form 10th Kansas Infantry April 3, 1862.


 * 4th Independent Battery, Kansas Light Artillery
 * "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * 5th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry
 * Organized at Leavenworth City July 12, 1861, to January 22, 1862. (Cos. "L" and "M" organized April to July, 1862.)
 * Non-Veterans mustered out (Cos. "A" to "H") August 11 to December 8, 1864. Companies "I" and "K" mustered out June 22, 1865. Companies "L" and "M" consolidated with 15th Kansas Cavalry August 22, 1865.


 * 6th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry


 * 6th Regiment, Kansas Infantry


 * 7th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry


 * 8th Regiment, Kansas Infantry


 * 9th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry


 * 10th Regiment, Kansas Infantry


 * 11th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry


 * 12th Regiment, Kansas Infantry


 * 13th Regiment, Kansas Infantry


 * 14th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry


 * 15th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry


 * 16th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry


 * 17th Regiment, Kansas Infantry (100 days, 1864


 * 18th Battalion, Kansas Cavalry


 * 19th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry (6 months


 * Abernathy's Company, Kansas Home Guards


 * Block's Company (Leavenworth Zouaves), Kansas Infantry&lt;


 * Unassigned Kansas Volunteers