Sumner Corbin

Sumner Corbin writes a letter from Linn County, Kansas to his friend Frank Walker on March 4, 1862. He tells Walker that many local men have enlisted in the 3rd and 4th Kansas Volunteer Regiments under the command of Col. Montgomery. He adds that a number of them no longer like Montgomery because he refused to commission Charles Jennison. Since then, Corbin says, Jennison became a Brigadier General of another regiment and has “cleaned out all the border counties of Missouri.”

March 4, 1862

Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Kansas military units
Guerrillas
Jayhawkers
Surviving a Guerrilla War

Sumner Corbin
James Montgomery
Charles R Jennison

Linn County, Kansas

Kansas Historical Society

Misc.: Walker, F.

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