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Balloon Service – 4
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Col. Baker’s California Regiment – 4-5
Editorial: The Disaster in Virginia – 5
Editorial: The Campaign on the Mississippi – 5-6
Editorial: The Question of Gun-Boats – 6-8
Editorial: France and England Decline to Sanction Privateering – 8
Appointment of a Quartermaster General – 8
The Coming French Steamers – 8

Our local daily did a nice write up on this battle three days ago. 3-4 miles from my house the area is now Air Force housing and a fresh water reservoir.
https://wydaily.com/local-news/2021/06/09/the-forgotten-engagement-of-the-civil-war-the-battle-of-big-bethel/

“Editorial: The Disaster in Virginia – 5”

I seem to remember that “Beast Butler” earned the sobriquet from Confederates.
This editorial all but calls him that, for incompetently murdering his own troops.

But however stupid, the Beast is still a Democrat and Lincoln needs as much Democrat support as he can get.
So the Beast will be promoted to ever higher levels of incompetcy

Some more Kansas News...

“ANOTHER BRIGADIER-GENERAL

Ex-Gov. Stanton, of Kansas, has been commisioned as a Brigadier-General in the United States Army, and has been detailed for duty at New Mexico, where he is to raise two regiments. One of these regiments is to be commanded by Sr. VRAIN, and is to be enlisted from the native New Mexicans; the other regiment is to be composed of Americans, and commanded by KIT CARSON.

The Mounted Rifles and the detachment of the First Cavalry, now on duty at Mexico, are to come home. They are to be replaced by the recruits sent out under Capt. GRANGER. Gen.STATON’S headquarters will be at Santa Fe.”

“On January 29, 1861, Kansas is admitted to the Union as free state. It was the 34th state to join the Union. The struggle between pro- and anti-slave forces in Kansas was a major factor in the eruption of the Civil War.”

“The first Kansas regiment was called on June 3, 1861, and the seventeenth, the last raised during the Civil War, on July 28, 1864. The entire quota assigned to Kansas was 16,654, and the number raised was 20,097, leaving a surplus of 3,443 to the credit of Kansas. About 1,000 Kansans joined Confederate forces, since a number of people from the nation’s south had settled in Kansas. There are no statistics on those serving the Confederacy, since some joined guerrilla units. Statistics indicate that losses of Kansas regiments killed in battle and from disease are greater per thousand than those of any other State.[citation needed] This led to a 19th-century nickname for Kansas: the “Spartan State”.”

“JUNE 20, 1861:

Senator Jim Lane of Kansas is appointed the Commander of the State’s pro-Union Volunteer Militia. His “Redlegs” are being raised to repel pro-Confederate “Missouri Border Ruffians” (pro-secessionists), but the Civil War in Kansas continues the legacy of “Bleeding Kansas” of 1854-59. Both sides degenerate into bands of bushwhackers and marauders prone to rape, pillage and atrocity. “

“The 5th Kansas Cavalry was organized at Leavenworth, Kansas, from July 12, 1861 through January 22, 1862. Companies L and M were organized April through July 1862. It was mustered in under the command of Colonel Hamilton P. Johnson.

The regiment was attached to Department of Kansas to June 1862. Unattached, Army of Southwest Missouri, Department of Missouri, to July 1862. District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of Missouri, to December 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of Missouri, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, XIII Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to April 1863. 2nd Brigade, District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of Tennessee, to June 1863. Clayton’s Independent Brigade, District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of Tennessee, to August 1863. Clayton’s Cavalry Brigade, Arkansas Expedition, to January 1864. Pine Bluff, Arkansas, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to September 1864. 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, VII Corps, to February 1865. Post St. Charles, VII Corps, to August 1865.

Companies A through H of the 5th Kansas Cavalry mustered out of service at Fort Leavenworth August 11 through December 8, 1864. Companies I and K mustered out on June 22, 1865, at Pine Bluff and Little Rock, Arkansas. Companies L and M were consolidated with the 15th Kansas Cavalry.”