1st Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry The 1st Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 1st Kansas Infantry was organized at Camp Lincoln near Leavenworth , Kansas , May 20 - June 30 , 1861 and mustered in for three years . The greatest number of men were recruited between May 20 and June 3 . It mustered in under the command of Colonel George Washington Deitzler . The regiment moved to Wyandotte , thence to Kansas City and Clinton , Missouri , to Join General Lyon , June 7 - July 13 , 1861 . Attached to Dietzler ' s Brigade , Lyon ' s Army of the West . Attached to Department of Missouri to February 1862 . Department of Kansas to June 1862 . District of Columbus , Kentucky , Department of Tennessee , to September 1862 . 1st Brigade , 6th Division , District of Corinth , Department of Tennessee , to November 1862 . 1st Brigade , 6th Division , Left Wing , XIII Corps , Department of Tennessee , to December , 1862 . 1st Brigade , 6th Division , XVI Corps , Army of the Tennessee , to January 1863 . 1st Brigade , 6th Division , XVII Corps , to July 1863 . District of Vicksburg , Mississippi , to September 1863 . 1st Brigade , 1st Division , XVII Corps , to August 1864 . Unattached , 2nd Division , XIX Corps , Department of the Gulf , to December 1864 . District of Eastern Arkansas , VII Corps , Department of Arkansas , to January 1865 . Department Headquarters , Department of Arkansas , to August 1865 . The 1st Kansas Infantry mustered out of service on August 30 , 1865 . Detailed service . Action at Dug Springs August 2 . At Springfield , Mo . , until August 7 . Battle of Wilson ' s Creek August 10 . March to Rolla , Mo . , August 11 – 22 , thence to St . Louis , Mo . , and duty on the Hannibal & St . Joseph Railroad until October . Duty at Tipton , Mo . , October 1861 , to January 1862 . Expedition to Milford , Mo . , December 15 – 19 , 1861 . Shawnee Mound , Milford , December 18 . At Lexington until February 1862 . Moved to Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . New Mexico Expedition April and May . Ordered to Columbus , Ky . , and duty guarding Mobile & Ohio Railroad . Headquarters at Trenton , Tenn . , until September . Moved to Jackson , Tenn . , and duty there until November . Brownsburg September 4 . Trenton September 17 . March to relief of Corinth , Miss . , October 3 – 5 . Pursuit to Ripley October 5 – 12 . Actions at Chewalla and Big Hill October 5 . Moved to Grand Junction November 2 . Grant ' s Central Mississippi Campaign . Operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad to the Yocknapatalfa River November 1862 , to January 1863 . Moved to Moscow , thence to Memphis , Tenn . , and to Young ' s Point , La . , January 17 , 1863 . Regiment mounted February 1 , 1863 . Moved to Lake Providence February 8 , and provost duty there until July . Actions at Old River , Hood ' s Lane , Black Bayou and near Lake Providence February 10 . Pin Hook and Caledonia , Bayou Macon , May 10 . Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26 - June 4 . Repulse of attack on Providence June 9 . Baxter ' s Bayou and Lake Providence June 10 . Bayou Macon June 10 . Richmond June 16 . Lake Providence June 29 . Moved to Natchez July 12 – 13 , and duty there until October . Expedition to Harrisonburg , La . , September 1 – 8 . Cross Bayou September 14 . Moved to Vicksburg , Miss . , October , and duty at Big Black River and near Haynes ' Bluff until June , 1864 . Big Black River October 8 , 1863 . Scout from Bovina Station to Baldwyn ' s Ferry November 1 . Scout to Baldwyn ' s Ferry January 14 , 1864 . Expedition up Yazoo River April 19 – 23 . McArthur ' s Expedition to Yazoo City May 4 – 21 . Benton May 7 – 9 . Luce ' s Plantation May 13 . Non - veterans ordered to Fort Leavenworth , Kans . , June 1 , 1864 . Attacked near Columbus , Ky . , June 2 . Mustered out June 19 , 1864 . Veterans on duty in District of Vicksburg , Miss . , until August 1864 . Ordered to Morganza , La . , July 29 . Operations in vicinity of Morganza September 16 – 25 . Near Alexandria September 20 . Atchafalaya October 5 . Ordered to White River , Ark . , October 7 , thence to Little Rock , Ark . , December 7 . Duty there as Headquarters Guard and escort , Department of Arkansas , until August 1865 . Casualties . The regiment lost a total of 252 men during service ; 7 officers and 120 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 3 officers and 122 enlisted men died of disease .