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These images are correspondence, commission documents, muster rolls and other items, arranged by militia unit (Regiments 1 through 23) as well several other units. State government correspondents include Governor Charles L. Robinson, Governor Thomas Carney, Adjutant General Charles Chadwick, Adjutant General Guilford Dudley, and Adjutant General Cyrus K. Holliday. State militia correspondents include Maj. Gen. J. C. Stone, Maj. Gen. John A. Halderman, Maj. Gen. J. S. McDowell, Brig. Gen. Samuel N. Wood, Col. Thomas Moonlight, Col. John T. Snoddy, and Major Watson Stuart of the 4th Ballalion, Colored Detachment. Examples of specific materials include a petition from citizens in Doniphan County to have Capt. A. W. Williams stationed in northern Kansas, an enrollment list for a Lawrence volunteer militia under Capt. Francis B. Swift, and a letter written by William Meairs to Gov. Carney suggesting an independent cavalry be organized in Wakarusa township to protect against raids from Missouri.
Date: 1861-1865
Item Number: 227875
Call Number: Kansas Adjutant General, Kansas State Militia Miscellaneous Papers by Unit
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 227875
Collections - State Archives - Adjutant General
Date - 1861-1869 - 1861
Date - 1861-1869 - 1862
Date - 1861-1869 - 1863
Date - 1861-1869 - 1864
Date - 1861-1869 - 1865
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Carney, Thomas
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Robinson, Charles
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Adjutant General
Military - Service - Militias
Military - Wars - Civil War
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Military order
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Roll, Muster
People - Notable Kansans - Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888
People - Notable Kansans - Dudley, Guilford, 1835-1905
People - Notable Kansans - Haldeman, John A.
People - Notable Kansans - Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
People - Notable Kansans - Jennison, Charles Ransford, 1834-1884
People - Notable Kansans - Moonlight, Thomas, 1833-1899
People - Notable Kansans - Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
People - Notable Kansans - Wood, S. N. (Samuel Newitt)
Places - Cities and towns - Atchison
Places - Cities and towns - Cottonwood Falls
Places - Cities and towns - Council Grove
Places - Cities and towns - Hiawatha
Places - Cities and towns - Humboldt
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Cities and towns - Marysville
Places - Cities and towns - Mound City
Places - Cities and towns - Wakarusa
Places - Counties - Allen
Places - Counties - Atchison
Places - Counties - Brown
Places - Counties - Chase
Places - Counties - Doniphan
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Linn
Places - Counties - Marshall
Places - Counties - Morris
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Military records - Military orders
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Military records - Muster rolls
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