2nd Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry

The 2nd Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 2nd Kansas Infantry was organized in Lawrence, Kansas and mustered in for three months. It mustered in on June 20, 1861, at Kansas City, Missouri under the command of Colonel Robert Byington Mitchell.

The regiment moved to Clinton, Missouri, to join Nathaniel Lyon, and was attached to Deitzler's Brigade, Lyon's Army of the West.

The 2nd Kansas Infantry mustered out of service on October 31, 1861. Many of the officers and enlisted men transferred to the 2nd Kansas Cavalry.

Detailed service

Advance on Springfield, Missouri, June 29-July 5. Expedition from Springfield to Forsyth July 20–25. Action at Forsyth July 22. Dug Springs August 2. Battle of Wilson's Creek August 10. March to Rolla, thence to St. Louis August 11–22. Operations in northeast Missouri August 30-September 7. Paris September 2. Shelbina September 4. Iatan September 4. Capture of St. Joseph September 13. Moved to Wyandotte, Kansas, to resist Price's invasion.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 17 men during service; 1 officer and 12 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 3 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

• Colonel Robert Byington Mitchell
• Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Blair

Notable members

• George Washington Glick - governor of Kansas (1883–1885)

See also

• List of Kansas Civil War Units
• Kansas in the Civil War
• Infantry in the American Civil War

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: 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.

External links

• History of the 2nd Kansas Infantry by the Museum of the Kansas National Guard
• 2nd Kansas Infantry history from Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kansas, 1861-1865 (1896)

Kansas in the American Civil War
Pre-War	Kansas–Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Sacking of Lawrence Pottawatomie massacre Battle of Black Jack Battle of Osawatomie Marais des Cygnes massacre Wakarusa War
September 1861	Battle of Dry Wood Creek Sacking of Osceola
August 1863	Lawrence massacre General Order No. 11 (1863)
October 1863	Baxter Springs massacre
October 1864	Battle of Marais des Cygnes Battle of Mine Creek