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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 first Kansas regiment was called on June 3, 1861, and the seventeenth, the last raised during the Civil War, July 28, 1864. The entire quota assigned to the Kansas was 16,654, and the number raised was 20,097, leaving a surplus of 3,443 to the credit of Kansas.
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War, was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas .
Big Creek. Hopewell. The Lawrence Massacre(also known as Quantrill's Raid) was an attack during the American Civil War(1861–65) by Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederateguerrillagroup led by William Quantrill, on the Unionisttown of Lawrence, Kansas, killing around 150 unarmed men and boys. The attack, on the morning of Friday August 21, 1863 ...
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 .
8th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment. 9th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment. 10th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment. 11th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment. 12th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment. 13th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment. 14th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment; October 9, 1864 – October 29, 1864; commanded by Colonel William Gordon ...
Westport (the United States) Showing Position of Forces in morning of October 22nd. The Battle of Westport, sometimes referred to as the " Gettysburg of the West ", was fought on October 23, 1864, in modern Kansas City, Missouri, during the American Civil War. Union forces under Major General Samuel R. Curtis decisively defeated an outnumbered ...
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.