If you are interested in the Civil War, you will want to look at a pristine tintype of Sergeant John P. Mosley. He was a member of Company D, 13th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry and later assigned to duty with the 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry. While serving with the 2nd Kansas Colored, he was wounded, left on the field, and taken prisoner by the Confederates at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas. Mosley died at Princeton, Arkansas, while a prisoner of war on May 9, 1864. Also, accompanying the tintype is a letter written by John M. Cain, Captain Co. G and formerly 1st Lieutenant Co. B, 83rd US Colored Infantry, late 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry to Charles L. Mosley, McFall, Gentry County, Missouri, reporting the death of Sergeant John P. Mosley. The original tintype and letter are in the State Archives & Library Division.
Allen Mosley, Prior Lake, MN, John Mosley’s great great grandson donated the tintype and letter. The two items were passed down through the family, and Allen Mosley received them from his mother.
I am the acquisitions co-coordinator, and I work with people interested in donating materials to the State Archives & Library. Everybody has a story to tell, and I want to hear about your family’s materials that relate to Kansas.
Nancy Sherbert
“Libraries are not made, they grow”. Augustine Birrell