1st Kansas (Colored) Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Fort Scott and mustered in as a Battalion January 13, 1863. Attached to Dept. of Kansas to June, 1863. District of the Frontier, Dept. Missouri, to January, 1864. Unattached, District of the Frontier, 7th Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to March, 1864. 2nd Brigade, District of the Frontier, 7th Corps, to December, 1864.
SERVICE.--Duty in the Dept. of Kansas October, 1862, to June, 1863. Action at Island Mound, Mo., October 27, 1862. Island Mound, Kansas, October 29. Butler, Mo., November 28. Ordered to Baxter Springs May, 1863. Scout from Creek Agency to Jasper County, Mo., May 16-19 (Detachment). Sherwood, Mo., May 18. Bush Creek May 24.
Shawnee town, Kan., June 6 (Detachment). March to Fort Gibson, C. N., June 27-July 5, with train. Action at Cabin Creek July 1-2. Elk Creek near Honey Springs July 17. At Fort Gibson until September. Lawrence, Kan. July 27 (Detachment). Near Sherwood August 14 Moved to Fort Smith, Ark., October, thence to Roseville December, and duty there until March, 1864. Horse Head Creek February 12, 1864. Roseville Creek March 20.
- March 23-May 3, 1864 -
Expedition from Little Rock to Camden, Arkansas
- Prairie D'Ann April 9-12.
- April 18, 1864 -
Engagement at Poison Spring, Arkansas
Jenkins Ferry April 30. March to Fort Smith, Ark., May 3-16, and duty there until December.
- September 16, 1864 -
Action at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
- September 18, 1864 -
Action at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
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Cabin Creek September 19. Timber Hill November 19. Designation of Regiment changed to 79th United States (Colored) Infantry on December 13, 1864.
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Notes
- ↑ Not originally referenced on unit homepage
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 682, 683, 986, 1186-1187)