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Title
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Kansas Negro Regiments in the Civil War
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Description
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Article about the "two Kansas Negro regiments" (the First and Second Kansas Colored Volunteers) in the Civil War and their military, "social and political overtones" for African Americans of the mid-1800s. Description of the hesitancy of President Lincoln and eagerness of General Jim Lane and Charles Jennison to utilize black soldiers, the results of the blacks' battles, pay and treatment, etc.
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Date
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1953-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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General Blunt's Account of His Civil War Experiences
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Description
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Account of the Civil War experiences of General James Gilpatrick Blunt, or Dr. James Blunt (1826-1881), a Union officer in Kansas born in Maine and moving to Kansas as a physician, "help[ing to] write the constitution of Kansas." Descriptions of his military maneuvers in Kansas City in 1861 with Generals Lane and Sturgis, et al., in response to a predicted attack by Confederate General Sterling Price, etc.
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Date
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1932-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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''Sent Out By Our Great Father'': Zebulon Montgomery Pike's Journal and Route Across Kansas, 1806
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Description
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Article looks at Zebulon Pike and his time in Kansas and includes a reprint of Zebulon Pike's journal, September 3 - November 11, 1806 as well as Pike's instructions contained in two letters from General James Wilkinson. "Since Pike was the first U.S. Army explorer to cross Kansas, and his expedition visited more areas of Kansas than any other military exploring expedition, his journal provides a 'first view' of the region. It was the first time detailed information was published in the United States about present Kansas. Although sketchy much of the time, the journal provides information about the geography and residents of the land in 1806. Pike's report on the region, an appendeix to his journal and a portion of which is reproduced here, compared the area of western Kansas to a desert, and that view affected national policy toward the Indians and white settlement of the area for nearly half a century."
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
