Kansas Civil War Union Infantry Units

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Kansas Civil War Union Infantry Units

The information in this list of Kansas Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site (CWSS). This web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.

• 1st Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Camp Lincoln, Fort Leavenworth, May 20 to June 3, 1861.
  Mustered out June 19, 1864.
  Veterans on duty in District of Vicksburg, Mississippi, until August, 1864. Mustered out August 30, 1865.
  

• 1st Regiment, Kansas Colored Infantry
  Organized at Fort Scott. Mustered in as a Battalion January 13, 1863.
  Designation of Regiment changed to 79th U.S. Colored Troops December 13, 1864.
  

• 1st Regiment, Indian Home Guards, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Leroy, Kansas, May 22, 1862.
  Mustered out May 31, 1865.
  

• 2nd Regiment, Indian Home Guards, Kansas Infantry
  Organized on Big Creek and at Five-Mile Creek, Kansas, June 22 to July 18, 1862.
  Mustered out May 31, 1865.
  

• 3rd Regiment, Indian Home Guards, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Carthage, Mo., September 16, 1862.
  Served unattached.
  Mustered out May 31, 1865.
  

• 1st Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's Invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 2nd Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Lawrence for three months May, 1861. Mustered in at Kansas City June 20, 1861.
  Mustered out October 31, 1861.
  

• 2nd Regiment, Kansas Colored Infantry
  Organized at Fort Scott and Fort Leavenworth August 11 to October 17, 1863.
  Designation of Regiment changed to 83rd U.S. Colored Troops (New), December 13, 1864.
  

• 2nd Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to resist Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 3rd Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Organization not completed.
  Consolidated with 4th Kansas Infantry to form 10th Kansas Infantry April 3, 1862.
  

• 3rd Regiment, Indian Home Guards, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Carthage, Mo., September 16, 1862.
  Served unattached.
  Mustered out May 31, 1865.
  

• 3rd Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 4th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Organization not completed.
  Consolidated with 3rd Kansas Infantry to form 10th Kansas Infantry April 3, 1862.
  

• 4th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 5th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Two Companies organized at Fort Scott. Attached to Lane's Kansas Brigade.
  Operations in September and October 1861.
  Discontinued and merged into other organizations.
  

• 5th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 6th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's Invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 6th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.
  

• 7th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 8th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Regiment organized for service in the State and along border August, 1861. Companies "A," "D," "G" and "H" at Lawrence, Kan., October, 1861.
  Mustered out November 29, 1865.
  Moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, November 30, 1865-January 6, 1866, and honorably discharged January 9, 1866.
  

• 8th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 9th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 10th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Paola by consolidation of 3rd and 4th Kansas Infantry April 3, 1862.
  Mustered out August 30, 1865. Discharged at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., September 20, 1865.
  

• 10th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 11th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Camp Lyon near Fort Leavenworth August 29 to September 14, 1862.
  Regiment mounted and designation changed to 11th Kansas Cavalry April, 1863.
  

• 11th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 12th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Paola September, 1862.
  Mustered out June 3, 1865.
  

• 12th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 13th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Atchison. Mustered in September 20, 1862.
  Mustered out June 26, 1865. Discharged at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., July 13, 1865.
  

• 13th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 14th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 15th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service to resist Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 16th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service to repel Price's Invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 17th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
  Organized at Fort Leavenworth July 28, 1864, for 100 days.
  Mustered out November 16, 1864.
  

• 17th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 18th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 19th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 20th Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 21st Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to resist Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• 22nd Regiment, Kansas Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.
  

• Block's Company (Leavenworth Zouaves), Kansas Infantry
  "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.
  

• Leavenworth Colored Militia Infantry
  Called into service October 9, 1864, to repel Price's invasion.
  Disbanded October 29, 1864.