16th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry

16th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
Flag of the United States, 1863-1865
Active	November 1863 to December 6, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Cavalry
Engagements	American Civil War Second Battle of Lexington Battle of Little Blue River Battle of Byram's Ford Battle of Westport Battle of Marais des Cygnes Battle of Mine Creek Battle of Marmiton River Second Battle of Newtonia Native American Wars Powder River Expedition Battle of Alkali Creek Battle of Dry Ford Battle of the Little Powder River

The 16th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and American Indian Wars.

Service

The 16th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was organized at Leavenworth, Kansas from November 1863 through May 1864. It mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel Werter R. Davis. The regiment was attached to District of Kansas, Department of Missouri, to April 1865. District of the Plains, Department of Missouri, to December 1865. The 16th Kansas Cavalry mustered out of service on December 6, 1865.

Detailed service

Duty in the District of North Kansas at Fort Leavenworth until September 1864. Company D at Fort Scott, 1st Brigade, District South Kansas. Companies A and L at Paola, 2nd Brigade, District South Kansas. Company B at Shawnee Mission and Company C at Olathe, 2nd Brigade, District of South Kansas. Companies F and G at Lawrence August 1864. Action at Ridgley, Missouri, June 11, 1864 (Company E). Scout from Leavenworth to Weston, Missouri, June 13–16, and from Kansas into Missouri June 16–29. Camden Point July 13 (Company F). Near Lexington October 17 (Company H). Second Battle of Lexington October 19. Operations against Price's Raid. Battle of Little Blue River October 21. Pursuit of Price October 21–28. Independence and State Line October 22. Big Blue and Westport October 23. Mine Creek, Little Osage River and Marias Des Cygnes October 25. Battle of Charlot October 25. Mound City and Fort Lincoln October 25 (Companies A and D). Second Battle of Newtonia October 28. Operations on Upper Arkansas January 28-February 9, 1865. Protecting country against Indians until June. Powder River Expedition, march from Fort Laramie to Powder River then to Fort Connor, July 11 - September 20. Actions with Indians September 1–10. Powder River, Battle of Dry Ford, September 8. Mustered out December 6, 1865.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 110 men during service; 1 officer and 10 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 98 enlisted men died of disease.

Senior Officers

Colonel Werter R. Davis
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Walker
Major James A. Price
Major James Ketner
Major Clarkson Reynolds
Major W. F. Woodworth

References

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion (Leavenworth, KS: W. S. Burke), 1870.

Attribution

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

External links

History of the 16th Kansas Cavalry by the Museum of the Kansas National Guard

Kansas in the American Civil War

Pre-War	Kansas–Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Sacking of Lawrence Pottawatomie massacre Battle of Black Jack Battle of Osawatomie Marais des Cygnes massacre Wakarusa War

September 1861	Battle of Dry Wood Creek Sacking of Osceola

August 1863	Lawrence massacre General Order No. 11 (1863)

October 1863	Baxter Springs massacre

October 1864	Battle of Marais des Cygnes Battle of Mine Creek

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