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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.
Recent scholarship [9] identifies two other brigades referred to by their members or others as "The Iron Brigade": 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps (17th Maine, 3rd Michigan, 5th Michigan, 1st, 37th, and 101st New York) Reno's Brigade from the North Carolina expedition (21st and 35th Massachusetts, 51st Pennsylvania, and 51st New York)
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.
The Men Stood Like Iron: How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997. Nolan, Alan T. The Iron Brigade, A Military History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961. ISBN 0-253-34102-7. Nolan, Alan T. and Sharon Eggleston Vipond, editors. Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade ...
0–9. 1st Minnesota Cavalry Regiment; 1st Minnesota Infantry Battalion; 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment; 1st Minnesota Light Artillery Battery; 1st Minnesota Sharpshooters Company
1st Brigade (Iron Brigade) BG Edward S. Bragg. 7th Indiana; 19th Indiana; 24th Michigan; 1st Battalion, New York Sharpshooters; 6th Wisconsin; 7th Wisconsin; 2nd Brigade Col J. William Hofmann 3rd Delaware; 4th Delaware; 76th New York; 95th New York; 147th New York; 56th Pennsylvania; 157th Pennsylvania; Artillery Brigade Col Charles S ...
Minnesota provided a large number of units in the American Civil War proportionate to its small population of approximately 170,000 in 1861-1865, with some 26,717 state volunteers being recorded, although a number of those are individuals who reenlisted in other units.