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Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
This photograph of Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, was taken in 1864 by an unidentified photographer. The building in the background is the guardhouse, and in the foreground is an African-American battery. This battery appears to be the precursor to the 9th and 10th Colored Regiments, formed in 1866.
previewOrren Arms Curtis
Wolfe, Harold B., 1898-1966
This photograph shows Orren Armas Curtis (1829-1898), Civil War veteran and father of Charles Curtis. He served as captain of Company F,15th Regiment Cavalry, Kansas Volunteers. In April of 1865 Curtis was court martial and sent to the military prison in Joplin, Missouri. He was paroled in May of 1865. Curtis resumed his military career by joining Company H, 19th Regiment Kansas Cavalry. In October of 1868, he was appointed to the ranks of quartermaster sergeant before mustering out of service on April 18, 1869.
previewJason Clarke Swayze portrait
Mill's Union Art Gallery
This is a carte-de-visite showing Jason Clarke Swayze in his Civil War uniform. Late in 1860, Swayze went south with his family where is plays with Northern sentiment were not well received. He was conscripted in the Confederate army, three weeks later, he escaped to the Union lines. Confederate army placed a bounty on Swayze?s head but he evaded capture. After the war, he returned to the south where his three children and buried wife were. He later remarried, having two more children, and ran a paper in Georgia and later Topeka. Swayze was murdered in Topeka on March 27, 1877.
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