6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment
6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment | |
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Active | July 1861 – August 27, 1865 |
Country | United States |
Allegiance | Union |
Branch | Cavalry |
Engagements | First Battle of Newtonia Battle of Old Fort Wayne Battle of Prairie Grove Camden Expedition Battle of Honey Springs Battle of Massard Prairie |
The 6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment was organized at Fort Scott, Kansas, in July 1861. The regiment began as three companies of home guard infantry, followed quickly by five additional companies, one of which was cavalry. On September 9, 1861, these recruits were reorganized and officers were elected. The reorganized regiment was then mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel William R. Judson.
The regiment was attached to Department of Kansas to August 1862. 2nd Brigade, Department of Kansas, to October 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Frontier, Department of Missouri, to February 1863 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Frontier, to June 1863. District of the Frontier, Department of Missouri, to January 1864. District of the Frontier, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to March 1864. 3rd Brigade, District of the Frontier, VII Corps, to January 1865. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, VII Corps, to February 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, VII Corps, to August 1865.
The 6th Kansas Cavalry mustered out of service at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas August 27, 1865.
Detailed service
Duty at Fort Scott until March 1862. Dry Wood Creek, Fort Scott, September 1, 1861. Morristown September 17.
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 228 men during service; 4 officers and 81 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 140 enlisted men died of disease.
Commanders
- Colonel William R. Judson
- Lieutenant Colonel Lewis R. Jewell - Namesake of Jewell County, Kansas, died at the Battle of Cane Hill, on 28 November 1862.[3]
Notable members
- Captain Charles F. Clarke, Company F - Namesake of Clark County, Kansas, Assistant Adjutant General in the U.S. Volunteers, died at Memphis, Tennessee, on 10 December 1862.[4]
See also
- List of Kansas Civil War Units
- Kansas in the Civil War
Notes
- ^ Porter, Kenneth W. (April 1967). "Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) in the Civil War (Part II)". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 45 (4): 399. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ^ Engraved memorial marker dedicated to lives lost in Cow Creek Skirmish; The Morning Sun; November 1, 2011. Archived April 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jewell County, Kansas - Kansas Historical Society".
- ^ "Clark County, Kansas - Kansas Historical Society".
References
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
- Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion (Leavenworth, KS: W. S. Burke), 1870.
- 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.