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2nd Kansas Cavalry Regiment

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Thomas Martin, Private, 2nd Kansas Cavalry, Company C, Saline County Kansas, Salina, KS, prominent farmer and Kansas pioneer and Irish immigrant. Severely wounded in the arm at the Battle of Prairie Grove AR, Reed Mountain. His brother was in the Union Army and died during the Civil War, Ohio 43rd,
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beginning on November 8, 1861, but its designation was changed to 9th Kansas Infantry on February 4, 1862. It was changed again on March 5, 1862, to 2nd Kansas Cavalry. It was mustered in under the command of
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The regiment lost a total of 181 men during service; 2 officers and 62 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 116 enlisted men died of disease.
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On May 22, 1862, an order was received from District Headquarters for the 2nd Kansas Cavalry to provide a 150-man detail to man a battery of six 10-pdr
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November 1861 to August 1862. 2nd Brigade, Department of Kansas, to October 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division,
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Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion
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Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion
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Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion
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History of the 2nd Kansas Cavalry by the Museum of the Kansas National Guard
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The 2nd Kansas Cavalry mustered out of service on August 17, 1865.
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Private William D. Mitchell, Company K - Namesake of
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Index

2nd Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
United States
Union
Cavalry
Hall's carbines
Starr Carbine
Battle of Perryville
Battle of Old Fort Wayne
Battle of Prairie Grove
Battle of Devil's Backbone
Camden Expedition
cavalry
regiment
Union Army
American Civil War
Kansas City
Kansas
Colonel
Department of Kansas
Army of the Frontier
Department of Missouri
VII Corps
Parrott rifles
Fort Leavenworth
Major General
Don Carlos Buell
Alabama
Kentucky Campaign
Battle of Perryville
Lancaster, Kentucky

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