Keith..... There are underlying issues that would impact the overall assessement of casualties. The Kansas Adjutant General's Report from 1867 leaves out one entire brigade (between 1,500 and 2,000 men and officers) that was later reported on in a later effort to complete information on Kansas Civil War rosters. Lane's Kansas Brigade consisted of the Third and Fourth Kansas Volunteers, the Fifth Kansas Cavalry and in part, the Bourbon County Home Guard (Later the beginning elements of the Sixth Kansas Cavalry). This entity existed from June 1861 through April 1862 and the mortality rates are not as consistently reported to match across to thet units reported in the Kansas Adjutant Generals' Report. Bascially some of the deaths are reported but some are not. Additional period newspaper articles show that some deaths were not reported in either Kansas Adjutant General's reports.

I do have information on the Mortality Rates from Lane's Brigade and have cross referenced officers and soldiers to the later Kansas Adjutant General's Report and have found glaring omissions. That said it probably wouldn't increase the mortality rates significantly enought to restore the assumption that they suffered more casualties than other states, but given that the First and Second Kansas made Foxe's Fighting Regiments, I would say that they still should be noted for as few citizens they had for the participation they made.