2nd Kansas Infantry Regiment

HISTORICAL NOTES:
The 2nd Kansas Infantry Regiment was recruited in May 1861. It formally organized on June 20. Sent into Missouri, it participated in several small actions in the Springfield area before fighting in the Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10, where it suffered 70 casualties out of about 600 men present excluded a detached cavalry company. Ordered back to Kansas after the battle, it fought in several small actions in Missouri and later lized in Kansas after enemy forces captured Lexington, Missouri, as Kansas was believed to be threatened by the Lexington movement. The unit was disbanded on October 31, with some of its men, including its commander, joining the 2nd Kansas Cavalry Regiment.

The Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 12 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 3 Enlisted men by disease. Total 17. ROSTERS:
The rosters of this unit contains the name of 661 men. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
REFERENCES:

REF: Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion