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Title
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The Military and Kansas History
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Description
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This bibliographic article is part of the magazine's "Review Essay Series". The author gives a thorough survey of the traditional literature dealing with military history in Kansas. He also analyzes the more recent publications and suggests many areas of the topic that need further study and writing. He talks about "boots and saddles" history which he describes as "little more than myopic, ethnocentric accounts of battles and military leaders. In the West this meant campaigns against American Indians, told from the army's point of view, promoting the ideas that the military was a tool of civilization, sweeping savage barbarians out of the way of white progress".
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Date
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2004
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Defense of the Kansas Frontier, 1864-'65
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Description
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First in a three part series of articles on the defense of Kansas during the end of the Civil War up to the end of the 1860s. Emphasis on military action concerning the Indians in the area and protection along the trails. Includes discussion of the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado. Includes Indian policy, treaties, etc., of the time.
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Date
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1932-02-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Black-Flag Character of War on the Border
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Description
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Reminiscences of the Civil War by Captain H. E. Palmer of the Eleventh Kansas cavalry, describing the "black-flag character" of their Bushwhacker opponents, led by William Quantrill. Description of battles and officers (James Lane, Charles Jennison, Thomas Ewing, et al.) at Westport, Osceola, Independence, etc.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Fort Leavenworth
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Description
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History of Fort Leavenworth, also known as Cantonment Leavenworth, established in 1828 near the site of present Leavenworth, Kansas, and "one of the nation's oldest active Army posts west of the Mississippi River," although "never attacked" and becoming a military training camp starting in World War I.
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Date
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1987
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Camp Croghan
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Description
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Description of Camp Croghan, the "first military post in Kansas," also called Cantonment Martin, "established in 1818 when Kansas was an unknown portion of the Louisiana Territory" and "winter quarters for Major Stephen H. Long's historic scientific expedition on 1819-20 into the Rocky Mountains" "located on Cow Island (known to the French as Isle de Vache) in the Missouri River within the confines of present Atchison County, about 10 miles north of where Fort Leavenworth would later be established."
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Date
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1987
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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The Story of the Seventh Kansas
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Description
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Extensive article about the history of the Seventh Kansas volunteer infantry, presented by its adjutant-general in the Civil War, Simeon Fox. Many details about battles and officers, including Charles Jennison, the group's leader, etc.
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Date
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1904
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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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Title
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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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Title
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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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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
