Topics in Kansas History:
War, Civil War

Kansas had only 30,000 men between the ages of 18 and 45 when the Civil War began in April 1861. Nevertheless, the state ultimately provided nineteen regiments and four artillery batteries in response to President Lincoln's calls for troops. All told, these units suffered nearly 8,500 casualties and sustained the highest mortality rate of any state in the Union-- over 61 percent. read more

Find resources on the Civil War in Kansas.

• Kansas in the Civil War

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Accouterments used by James G. Blunt
• Bloodletting tools
• Flag, 1st Kansas Colored Infantry
• Flag, 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry
• Flag, 2nd Kansas Volunteer, "Springfield"
• Flag, 8th Kansas Infantry
• Flag from Quantrill's raid on Olathe
• Flag presented to James G. Blunt
• Keep the Flag to the Front: Battle Flags of Kansas (an online exhibit)
• Price Raid painting by Samuel Reader
• Valentines, Civil War
• Warletters, Civil War

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

• Civil War Pamphlets on Microfiche
• Civil War Veterans in Kansas database

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "Civil War Valor in Concrete: David A Lester and the Kinsley Civil War Monument," Autumn 1999
• "A 'Fiend in Human Shape'? William Clarke Quantrill and His Biographers," Summer 1999
• "From Border War to Civil War: More Letters From Edward and Sarah Fitch, 1855-1863. Part I," Spring 1997
• "'A Most Unusual Gathering':  The 1913 Semi-Centennial Memorial Reunion of the Survivors of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence," Autumn 1997
• "'This Regiment Will Make A Mark': Letters From a Member of 'Jennison's Jayhawkers,' 1861-1862," Spring 1997
• "Riding with the Devil: The Movie Adventures of William Clarke Quantrill," Autumn 1999

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