September.

15.Twenty-First Kansas volunteers of the brigade received orders to prepare for home and muster out.
20.Secretary of War, General Russell A. Alger of Michigan, visited camp and reviewed the troops.
23.Governor Bradley of Kentucky and staff reviewed the troops.
24.Regiment visited Louden Park race track, Lexington, and gave exhibition drill.
26.Twenty-First Kansas regiment departed for muster out at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
27.First Territorial regiment arrived in camp from west.

October.

10.First battalion of regiment sent out on Bryan Pike on account of trouble at Lexington.
11.Men of regiment visited Forepaugh & Sells Brothers circus at Lexington.
20.General Breckinridge turned command over to General Wilson.

November.

10.Regiment transferred to Second Brigade, Second Division, First Army Corps.
Evacuation of Lexington.
12.Regiment arrived at Americus, Georgia, and went into camp.
Krag-Jorgensen rifles arrived.
Thanksgiving day. Men enjoyed dinner provided by Captain Augustus P. Gardner of Hamilton, Massachusetts.

December.

10.Commissioners at Paris signed treaty of peace.
25.Christmas day. Camp decorated. Men provided with dinner by Hon. George von L. Meyer of Hamilton, Massachusetts.
26.Twelfth New York regiment left camp enroute for Cuba.
31.Orders received for regiment to prepare to move to Cuba.

January.