Charles R. Jennison

Charles Rainsford Jennison
Jennison, c. 1855-1860
Personal details
BornJune 6, 1834 (1834-06-06)
Antwerp, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 21, 1884 (1884-06-22) (aged 50)
Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S.
Political partyRepublican[1]
Nickname"Doc"
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Years of service1861–1864
Rank Colonel
CommandsJennison's Jayhawkers (7th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry)
15th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
Battles/wars
Jennison as a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War
An illustration of Jennison following the end of the Civil War in 1865

Charles Rainsford Jennison also known as "Doc" Jennison (June 6, 1834 – June 21, 1884) was a member of the anti-slavery faction during Bleeding Kansas, a famous Jayhawker, and a member of the Kansas State Senate in the 1870s. He later served as a Union colonel and as a leader of Jayhawker militias during the American Civil War, until being dishonorably discharged for murder and robbery.

Early life and education

Charles R. Jennison was born on June 6, 1834, in Antwerp, New York in Jefferson County. His family moved to Wisconsin in 1846, where Jennison studied medicine. At the age of 20, Jennison married. In 1858, he moved to Osawatomie, Kansas and to Mound City, Kansas, shortly thereafter.[2] Jennison was considered the most brutal and unscrupulous of the jayhawkers.

Career

Bleeding Kansas

While some other prominent leaders of irregulars in the Bleeding Kansas border conflict shared these traits, Jennison was distinguished by his blatant plunder for personal gain.[3] Jennison cooperated with James Montgomery in opposing pro-slavery settlers and irregulars believed to be in league with Border Ruffians. In command of nine men, Jennison "tried" and hanged Russell Hinds near the state line at Mine Creek for the offense of helping to return a fugitive slave to his master in Missouri. Returning a slave was not only legal, but required at the time under the Fugitive Slave Act.[4] Hinds had rejected the standard $25 reward ($515 in 2005 dollars), but did accept $5 reimbursement for his expenses in transporting the slave, who had agreed to return to his master while awaiting legal emancipation. The acceptance of the reimbursement was enough to convince Jennison to hand down a death sentence.

Civil War

Prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War, Jennison became a captain of the Mound City Guards on February 19, 1861.[5] Although not with Senator James H. Lane's Kansas brigade during the Sacking of Osceola, Jennison was associated with it and would soon join the fray after receiving a commission as colonel from Kansas Governor Charles L. Robinson on September 4.[6]

On October 28, 1861, Jennison completed the organization and mustering of his 7th Kansas Cavalry. The regiment would become known as "Jennison's Jayhawkers." It immediately took to the field patrolling the Kansas-Missouri border to prevent the secessionist under Sterling Price from crossing. Jennisons was a resolute abolitionist; his sentiments on the matter were the subject of an article in Horace Greeley's New York Daily Tribune. The article reported Jennison as refusing to allow non-abolitionist soldiers to serve under his command, and asserting that "the slaves of [southerners] can always find a protection in... [my] camp, and they will be defended to the last man and bullet."

While the regiment was at Leavenworth, Kansas, in April 1862, Jennison, angered over James G. Blunt being named brigadier general in his stead, resigned from the army and turned to banditry as a Redleg.[7][8]

Following the Lawrence Massacre Jennison was once again commissioned a colonel and called into service by Kansas Governor Thomas Carney. Jennison raised a regiment that would become the 15th Kansas Cavalry on October 17, 1863.[9]

In a particularly egregious incident late in the war, Jennison shot and killed 66 year old civilian David Gregg "on the public highway north of Parkville [sic], Platte Co. Mo." on September 15, 1864.

Colonel Jennison commanded a mixed brigade of Kansas militia and volunteers resisting Price's Raid in October 1864.[10] However, in December he was arrested as the result of plundering while returning through Missouri after the pursuit of Price. Jennison was court-martialled and convicted on June 23, 1865, whereupon he was dishonorably dismissed from the service.[11]

Postwar

Jennison was elected to the Kansas Legislature from Leavenworth County in 1865, reelected in 1867, and elected to the Kansas State Senate in 1872.

Death

Jennison died at Leavenworth, Kansas on June 21, 1884 at age 50.[5]

References

  1. ^ Jennison, Charles R., by Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati, Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict,1855-1865
  2. ^ Wilkie, Frank B., edited by Banasik, Michael, Missouri in 1861: The Civil War Letters of Frank B. Wilkie, Newspaper Correspondent, Part IV, 2001, page 247, footnote 215
  3. ^ Castel, Albert, Civil War in Kansas: Reaping the Whirlwind, (ISBN 0-7006-0872-9), University Press of Kansas, 1997, page 43
  4. ^ Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, A. T. Andreas, 1883, "Linn County", Part 4
  5. ^ a b Connelley, William E., A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, Lewis Publishing Company, 1918, "Charles R. Jennison"
  6. ^ "Kansas Jayhawking Raids into Western Missouri in 1861", Missouri Historical Review, Vol. 54 No. 1, October 1959
  7. ^ Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, A. T. Andreas, 1883, Part 7, "Seventh Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry"
  8. ^ Buresh, Lumir F., October 25 and the Battle of Mine Creek, The Lowell Press, 1977, page 20
  9. ^ Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, A. T. Andreas, 1883, Part 14, "Fifteenth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry"
  10. ^ The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume XLI/1, pages 581-591
  11. ^ The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume XLI/4, page 874

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