15th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry

15th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
Active	October 17, 1863 to December 7, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Cavalry
Engagements	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

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

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.

Casualties

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

Commanders

• Colonel Charles R. Jennison

Notable members

• Private David Lewis Payne, Company H - "father" of Oklahoma

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