2nd Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit in the American Civil War. It organized at Fort Scott, Kansas, and mustered in for three years, beginning in August 1863, with final muster at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on November 1, 1863, under Colonel Samuel Johnson Crawford.
The regiment served in the District of the Frontier, Department of Missouri, until January 1864; then was unattached in the District of the Frontier, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to March 1864; and then the 2nd Brigade, District of the Frontier, VII Corps, to December 1864.
On December 13, 1864, it was redesignated as the 83rd U.S.Colored Troops.
Actions included Baxter Springs, Kansas (October 6, 1863; Company A); moving from Fort Scott to Fort Smith as train escort (October 19, 1863); duty at Fort Smith through March 1864; Steele’s Expedition to Camden (March 23–April 30, 1864); Prairie D’Ann (April 9–13, 1864); and Jenkins’ Ferry (April 30 and May 4–8, 1864). It returned to Fort Smith and stayed there until December 1864.
Casualties: at least 71 men lost (1 officer and 70 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded). Records are incomplete because some were lost after Jenkins’ Ferry.
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