Concluded five years before Wichita was founded, the American Civil War nevertheless influenced our city in ways still evident today. Several thousand Union veterans of the Civil War made their homes in and around Wichita after the war, part of an influx that earned Kansas the nickname of “The Soldier State.” They wasted little time […]
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