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After the Civil War, the word "Jayhawker" became synonymous with the people of Kansas, or anybody born in Kansas. [1] Today a modified version of the term, Jayhawk, is used as a nickname for a native-born Kansan. [2] [3] [4]
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.
The name "Jayhawk" comes from the Kansas Jayhawker militias during the Bleeding Kansas era of the American Civil War.The term became part of the lexicon of the Missouri-Kansas border in about 1858, during the Kansas territorial period, as these militia groups began to grow in Kansas.
The 7th Kansas Cavalry was organized at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on October 28, 1861. It mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel Charles R. Jennison.. The regiment was attached to Department of Kansas to June 1862. 5th Division, Army of the Mississippi, to September 1862. 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of the Mississippi, to November 1862. 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division ...
Jennison as a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War An illustration of Jennison following the end of the Civil War in 1865. Charles Rainsford Jennison also known as "Doc" Jennison (June 6, 1834 – June 21, 1884) was a member of the anti-slavery faction during Bleeding Kansas, a famous Jayhawker, and a member of the Kansas State Senate in the 1870s.
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Jayhawk may refer to: Jayhawker, originally a term for Free State or Union partisans during the Bleeding Kansas period and subsequently the United States Civil War, later applied generally to residents of Kansas; Jayhawk (mascot), the mascot of many schools and their sports teams, derived from the term Jayhawker
Jalen Wilson had 24 points and Kevin McCullar added 21 for the Jayhawks, who dominated start to finish in the latest iteration of the Border War. No. 6 Kansas Jayhawks roll to 95-67 Border War ...