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The bayonet charge by the 1st Minnesota regiment against a Confederate brigade on July 2, 1863 The 1st Minnesota's flag lost five flag bearers, each man dropping his weapon to carry it on. The 47 survivors rallied back to General Hancock under the command of their senior surviving officer, Captain Nathan S. Messick.
It was third behind the 24th Michigan, also an Iron Brigade regiment, as well as the 1st Minnesota in total casualties at Gettysburg. The Michigan regiment lost 397 out of 496 soldiers, an 80% casualty rate.
The 1st Minnesota Infantry Battalion was mustered into service on April 29, 1864, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and was originally formed by soldiers of the disbanded 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment who had reenlisted into U.S. service. These veterans formed two companies that became the nucleus of the 1st Minnesota Battalion.
The 2nd and the 1st United States Volunteer Sharpshooter Regiment were consolidated on December 31, 1864, and the regiment was broken up on February 20, 1865, and the remaining companies distributed as follows: Company "A" transferred to the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
1st Brigade: Col De Witt C. Baxter. 19th Maine: Ltc Henry W. Cunningham; 15th Massachusetts: Ltc George C. Joslin; 1st Minnesota: Maj Mark W. Downie; 82nd New York (2nd Militia): Col Henry W. Hudson; 152nd New York: Maj Timothy O'Brien; 2nd Brigade "Philadelphia Brigade": Col Arthur F. Devereux. 69th Pennsylvania: Maj James Duffie
Soldiers and leaders of the 1-94th Cavalry Regiment, a squadron of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, gathered at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, April 3, to case their colors as the 1/34th BCT prepares to leave country and go back to Minnesota.
0–9. 1st Minnesota Cavalry Regiment; 1st Minnesota Infantry Battalion; 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment; 1st Minnesota Light Artillery Battery; 1st Minnesota Sharpshooters Company
I Corps (First Corps) was the designation of three different corps-sized units in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Separate formation called the I Corps served in the Army of the Ohio/Army of the Cumberland under Alexander M. McCook from September 29, 1862 to November 5, 1862, in the Army of the Mississippi under George W. Morgan from January 4, 1863 to January 12, 1863 (which was ...