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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 first Kansas regiment was called on June 3, 1861, and the seventeenth, the last raised during the Civil War, on July 28, 1864. The entire quota assigned to Kansas was 16,654, and the number raised was 20,097, leaving a surplus of 3,443 to the credit of Kansas. About 1,000 Kansans joined Confederate forces since a number of people from the ...
The Battle of Black Jacktook place on June 2, 1856, when antislaveryforces, led by the noted abolitionistJohn Brown, attacked the encampment of Henry C. Patenear Baldwin City, Kansas. The battle is cited as one incident of "Bleeding Kansas" and a contributing factor leading up to the American Civil Warof 1861 to 1865. Background.
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 . The conflict was characterized by years of ...
The Battle of Mine Creek, also known as the Battle of Little Osage, was fought on October 25, 1864, in Linn County, Kansas, as part of Price's Missouri Campaign during the American Civil War. Major-General Sterling Price had begun an expedition in September 1864 to restore Confederate control of Missouri. After being defeated at Westport near ...
The 6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 6th Kansas Cavalry at the Battle of Honey Springs , July 1863. Engraving based on sketch by James R. O'Neill .
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 ...
The sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery settlers, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town that had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a free state. The incident fueled the irregular conflict in Kansas Territory ...