1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment
UNION ARMY REGIMENT DURING CIVIL WAR
1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry; Armstrong's Battery Light Artillery; 79th U.S. Colored Troops; 1st Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent); 1st Kansas Colored Infantry; 1st Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry (Colored); 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was the first black regiment to be organized in a northern state and the first black unit to see combat during the Civil War.