15th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry

15th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
Active	October 17, 1863, to December 7, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Cavalry
Engagements	American Civil War Battle of Camden Point Second Battle of Lexington Battle of Little Blue River Second Battle of Independence Battle of Byram's Ford Battle of Westport Battle of Marais des Cygnes Battle of Mine Creek Battle of Marmiton River Second Battle of Newtonia American Indian Wars Powder River Expedition Powder River Battles

The 15th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and American Indian Wars.

Service

The 15th Kansas Cavalry was organized at Leavenworth, Kansas, on October 17, 1863. It mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel Charles R. Jennison. The regiment was attached to District of the Border, Department of Missouri, to January 1864. Department of Kansas to June 1864. Districts of North and South Kansas, Department of Missouri, to October 1865. The majority of the regiment mustered out of service on October 19, 1865. Company H mustered out of service on December 7, 1865.

Detailed service

Assigned to duty at Leavenworth and at various points in southern Kansas, at Olathe, Paola, Coldwater Grove, Trading Post, Fort Scott, Osage Mission and Humboldt by detachments (Company H at Fort Riley) until October 1864. Skirmish at Clear Creek, Mo., May 16, 1864 (detachments of Companies D and L). Scout from Fort Leavenworth to Weston, Mo., June 13–16, 1864. Expedition into Missouri June 16–20 (Companies B, C, and G). Price's Raid in Missouri and Kansas September to November. Lexington October 19. Little Blue October 21. Independence, Big Blue and State Line October 22. Westport October 23. Coldwater Grove, Osage, October 24. Mine Creek, Little Osage River, and battle of Charlot October 25. Newtonia October 28. Duty in Dept. of Kansas and Dept. of the Missouri until October 1865. The majority of the regiment mustered out of service on October 19, 1865. Company H joined the middle column of the Powder River Expedition under Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Walker in July, 1865 and marched from Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory to the Powder River then to Fort Connor, July 11 - September 20. Actions with Indians September 1–11 on Powder River, Montana Territory. Company H mustered out December 6, 1865.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 100 men during its service, 2 officers and 19 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, and 2 officers and 77 enlisted men who died of disease.

Commanders

• Colonel Charles R. Jennison
• Lieutenant Colonel George Henry Hoyt

Notable members

• Private David Lewis Payne, Company H - "Father" of Oklahoma
• Captain Orloff Norton, Company L - Namesake of Norton County, Kansas, killed near Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas, on November 11, 1864.^[1]
• Second Lieutenant David John Mosher Wood, Company B - Brother of Samuel Newitt Wood

See also

• List of Kansas Civil War Units
• Kansas in the Civil War

References

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
• Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion (Leavenworth, KS: W. S. Burke), 1870.

Attribution

• This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

External links

• History of the 15th Kansas Cavalry by the Museum of the Kansas National Guard

Kansas in the American Civil War
Pre-War	Kansas–Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Sacking of Lawrence Pottawatomie massacre Battle of Black Jack Battle of Osawatomie Marais des Cygnes massacre Wakarusa War
September 1861	Battle of Dry Wood Creek Sacking of Osceola
August 1863	Lawrence massacre General Order No. 11 (1863)
October 1863	Baxter Springs massacre
October 1864	Battle of Marais des Cygnes Battle of Mine Creek