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Title: The Military Post as a Factor in the Frontier Defense of Kansas, 1865-1869
Description: Article about the history of military posts, forts, and camps in the defense of the Kansas frontier, including the Santa Fe Trail, back to the 1818 establishment of "Cantonment Martin" located "on Cow Island in the Missouri river within the bounds of the present Atchison county, Kansas" and created "as a base of supplies for Major Stephen H. Long's engineering expedition of 1819-'20."
Date: 1931-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Plan of Cantonment Leavenworth, 1828 [and] A Report and Remarks on Cantonment Leavenworth
Description: Portrait (of Colonel Leavenworth), map (of the plans for Cantonment Leavenworth in 1828), and article about Fort Leavenworth, planned in 1828 and built in 1829 near the present city of Leavenworth, Kansas, and named for its first leader, Colonel Henry Leavenworth (1783-1834).
Date: 1947-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas Negro Regiments in the Civil War
Description: 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.
Date: 1953-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: General Blunt's Account of His Civil War Experiences
Description: 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.
Date: 1932-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

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