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Excerpt from The Story of the Seventh Kansas: An Address Made Before the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Kansas State Historical Society, December 2, 1902
The Third and Fourth Kansas Volunteers were regiments of mixed arms, and were organized by General Lane; these two regiments, with the Fifth Kansas Cavalry, constituted what was known as Lane's Brigade. The Third was mustered into the United States service at Mound City on July 24, 1861, under the command of Colonel James Montgomery. This regiment took the place of the third regiment authorized by the Secretary of War in the order of June 17th, previously quoted. The Fourth Kansas Volunteers was mustered into the United States service about the same time, under the command of Colonel William Weer. The Fifth Kansas Cavalry was mustered in under the command of Colonel Hampton P. Johnson, who was killed in action at Morristown, Mo., on September 17 1861, and was succeeded in command by Colonel Powell Clayton. The Sixth Kansas Cavalry was mustered in at Fort Scott on September loth. It was commanded by Colonel William R. Judson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
