Maj. Gen. George W. Deitzler

Kansas State Militia

In 1856 in the Territory of Kansas, George W. Deitzler (his last name is sometimes spelled Dietzler) was a subject of the treason indictment and arrested along with Charles Robinson. Deitzler served two terms in the Kansas territorial legislature. When the Civil War started, Deitzler enlisted and was elected colonel of the 1st Kansas Infantry. On August 10, 1861, Deitzler was wounded while in command of this regiment during the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. In March 1863, Deitzler was promoted to brigadier general and commanded the 1st Brigade, 6th Division, XVII Corps, during the Vicksburg campaign. During Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price’s 1864 invasion of Missouri, Maj. Gen. George W. Deitzler had field command of the Kansas State Militia.

References

• Wilson and Fiske, Appletons’ Cyclopædia of American Biography Vol. 2, 125.

• Kansas Adjutant General, Report of Kansas Adjutant General 1864, 47-48.

• Kansas Adjutant General, Report of Kansas Adjutant General 1861-1865, 6, 22.

• OR s1 v3, 56.

• OR s1 v24 p3, 24.

• OR s1 v41 p1, 614-618.