The Battle of Cabin Creek is significant because of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment that fought under Gen. James Blunt, Spillars said. The unit was organized in the ...

Kings and Generals. American Civil War Origins and First Battles. Posted: May 8, 2025 | Last updated: May 8, 2025. Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series on early modern ...

In his insightful book “A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War,” the historian David S. Brown makes a convincing case for the ...

Oct. 20—The last of several events marking the 160th anniversary of a Civil War raid into Missouri is planned for Newtonia this ... and in Kansas City, site of other battles during the 1864 ...

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond, here are the most basic facts you need.

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War David S. Brown. Scribner, $32 (352p) ISBN 978-1-6680-2281-8 ...

The average person is quite surprised that Civil War battles were fought here in Oklahoma, based, I suppose, on the assumption that as Oklahoma did not become a state until 1907 and, during the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Museum of the Kansas National Guard hosted Heartland Military Day Saturday, June 14.. The day was filled with activities, including a pancake feed and concerts from the ...