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Kansas Military Records
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The records of the Kansas Adjutant General through World War II are located at the Kansas State Historical Society. Few are indexed. Virtually nothing has survived from the Territorial Militia which was pro-slavery. The records of the unofficial “Free State Forces” are extant at the Kansas State Historical Society as are the records of the Kansas Adjutant General from 1861 to World War I. The Daughters of the American Revolution, John Haipt Chapter, have indexed the Kansas Civil War and Indian War militia. An index to the Kansas Adjutant General's report of 1861–65 and a list of military men who received a bonus in World War I exist at the state archives. A list of soldiers killed in battle in Kansas regiments is given in Andreas's History of Kansas, pages 180–208.
Post-Civil War veteran's census records include the 1883 index to pensioners, veterans, their widows and orphans, and the 1930 veteran's census. The original Grand Army of the Republic Post Records are in the Kansas State Historical Society Library.
Good biographical information is available on Spanish-American and World War I veterans in the manuscript department of the Kansas State Historical Society. The Adjutant General report entitled Index to Kansas Troops in the Volunteer Service of the United States in the Spanish and Philippine Wars is also available for research. The Kansas State Historical Society holds the photostatic copies of World War I enlistment and discharge papers of Kansas military personnel (see also Cemeteries). The Kansas State Archives has a list of military men who received a World War I bonus.
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List conflicts dating from earliest to 1865
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Conflicts involving Kansas dating from earliest to 1865. Wars covered that are available are:
