1st Kansas Infantry Regiment
MILITARY UNIT
1st Kansas Volunteer Infantry; First Kansas Volunteer Infantry; 1st Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry; 1st Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 1st Kansas Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. On August 10, 1861, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, the regiment suffered 106 soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded, one of the highest numbers of fatalities suffered by any Union infantry regiment in a single engagement during the American Civil War.