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Two Kansas Cavalry Regiments Honored for Civil War Service
Congressman Edward Little urges pension extension for Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas cavalry veterans and their widows. He recalls Custer era campaigns against Cheyennes Apaches and Kiowas, praising officer conduct and the rescue of captive women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Edward C. Little
Kansas
Kansas Cavalry
Little
United States
Kentucky
Langley
Airman
George A. Custer
Texas
Sweetwater
Theajor
Ran
Custer
Topeka
Fort Hays
Kans
Secretary of War
William Tecumseh Sherman
Arkansas River
Wichita
Seventh United States Cavalry
Beaver Creek
North Canadian
Sheridan
Washita
Santanta
Lone Wolf
Fort Cobb
Washita Mountains
Fort Sill
Medicine Bluff
Nineteenth
Salt Fork
Llano Estacado
Sweetwater Creek
Sherdian
Moore
Tenth United States Cavalry
Texas Panhandle
Southwest
Logan County
Panhandle
John Q. A. Norton
Lawrence
Kan
Dumas
Nineteenth Kansas
H. C. Lindsey
Twenty-second Kansas
Norton
Great West