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{{Infobox Military Unit
|unit_name= 2nd
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|dates= November 8, 1861
|country= [[United States]]
|allegiance= [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]
|branch= [[Cavalry]]
|equipment= "[[M1819 Hall rifle|Hall's carbines]]<br> Starr Carbine,
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|battles= [[Battle of Perryville]] (detachment)<br/>[[Battle of Old Fort Wayne]]<br/>[[Battle of Prairie Grove]]<br/>[[Battle of Devil's Backbone]]<br/>[[Camden Expedition]]
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The '''2nd Kansas
==Service==
The 2nd Kansas Cavalry was organized at [[Kansas City, Kansas|Kansas City]], [[Kansas]] beginning on November 8, 1861, but its designation was changed to 9th Kansas Infantry on February 4, 1862.
The regiment was attached to [[Department of Kansas]] November 1861 to August 1862. 2nd Brigade, Department of Kansas, to October 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, [[Army of the Frontier]], Department of Missouri, to February 1863. District of Southwest Missouri, [[Department of Missouri]], to December 1863. 2nd Brigade, District of the Frontier, to January 1864. 2nd Brigade, District of the Frontier, [[VII Corps (Union Army)|VII Corps]], Department of Arkansas, to March 1864. 1st Brigade, District of the Frontier, VII Corps, to April 1864. 3rd Brigade, District of the Frontier, VII Corps, to January 1865. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, VII Corps, to February 1865. Unattached, VII Corps, to August 1865.
On May 22, 1862, an order was received from District Headquarters for the 2nd Kansas Cavalry to provide a 150-man detail to man a battery of six 10-pdr [[Parrott rifle]]s at [[Fort Leavenworth]].
The 2nd Kansas Cavalry mustered out of service on August 17, 1865.
==Casualties==
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* Colonel [[Robert Byington Mitchell]]
* Colonel [[Samuel Johnson Crawford]]
* [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel]] Owen A. Bassett
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* Colonel [[William F. Cloud]] - Namesake of [[Cloud County, Kansas]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_counties/view/county:CD|title=Cloud County, Kansas - Kansas Historical Society}}</ref>
* [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]] Avra P. Russell, Company K - Namesake of [[Russell County, Kansas]], died of wounds received at the [[Battle of Prairie Grove]], Arkansas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_counties/view/county:RS|title=Russell County, Kansas - Kansas Historical Society}}</ref>
* Sergeant Marion Harper, Company E - Namesake of [[Harper County, Kansas]], killed at [[Waldron, Arkansas]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_counties/view/county:HP|title=Harper County, Kansas - Kansas Historical Society}}</ref>
* Private William D. Mitchell, Company K - Namesake of [[Mitchell County, Kansas]], promoted to captain of a Kentucky regiment, killed at the [[Battle of Monroe's Crossroads]], North Carolina<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_counties/view/county:MC|title=Mitchell County, Kansas - Kansas Historical Society}}</ref>
* Private Vincent B. Osborn, Company A - Namesake of [[Osborne County, Kansas]], lost a leg at Roseville, [[Logan County, Arkansas]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_counties/view/county:OB|title=Osborne County, Kansas - Kansas Historical Society}}</ref>
* Thomas Martin, Private, 2nd Kansas Cavalry, Company C, Saline County Kansas, Salina, KS, prominent farmer and Kansas pioneer and Irish immigrant. Severely wounded in the arm at the Battle of Prairie Grove Ak, Reed Mountain. His brother was in the Union Army and died during the Civil War, Ohio 43rd, Infantry.
==See also==
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* [[List of Kansas Civil War Units]]
* [[Kansas in the Civil War]]
*https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/skirmish-at-reeds-mountain-6675/
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starr_carbine
==Notes==
{{Reflist}}
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090122052354/http://www.kansasguardmuseum.org/2ksvls.html History of the 2nd Kansas Cavalry by the Museum of the Kansas National Guard]
*https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/skirmish-at-reeds-mountain-6675/
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