The idea for a Statehouse mural honoring the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment was first put into law in 2000, but it never materialized. Lawmakers in 2023 reauthorized the artwork to ...
The crowd listened intently as Steve Cottrell, a Carthage resident and Civil War researcher and writer, told the story of the detachment of 40 members of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry ...
the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and the most celebrated regiment of black soldiers during the Civil War, the famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.