The Nineteenth Kansas Volunteers or the Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry was a volunteer cavalry regiment mustered for a six-month service, in 1868, in response to hostilities concerning the Plains Indians.
Then-governor Samuel J. Crawford, formed the 1200 strong regiment in response to the request from General Philip H. Sheridan.
Crawford then resigned his post and was appointed colonel of the regiment, 7 November 1868.
[citation needed] On 7 December, the regiment headed south under Sheridan in close pursuit of their enemy.
By March, all the tribes had surrendered, and the regiment was then barracked at Fort Hays, where it remained until April 1869, when it was demobilized.