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1889 reunion veterans of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. General Joshua L. Chamberlain, the officer who commanded them in battle, is seated at center right, bracketed by the Maltese Cross banner of the V Corps (5th) and the unit's regimental flag. Left is a monument to the unit recently erected by its veterans.
near modern Columbus, Nebraska: War of the Quadruple Alliance: 46 [2] Spanish Empire, Pueblo, & Apache vs Pawnee & Otoe: Battle of Ash Hollow [3] September 3, 1855 near modern Lewellen, Nebraska: First Sioux War: 113 Brulé vs United States of America Battle Creek [4] July 12, 1859 near modern Battle Creek, Nebraska: Pawnee War of 1859 0
Hastings is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Nebraska, United States. [3] The population was 25,152 at the 2020 census , making it the 8th most populous city in Nebraska . Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid in Hastings in 1927; the town celebrates the invention with the Kool-Aid Days festival every August.
Ellis Spear (October 15, 1834 – April 3, 1917) was an officer in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.On April 10, 1866, the United States Senate confirmed President Andrew Johnson's February 24 nomination of Spear for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general to rank from April 9, 1865.
The 20th Maine regiment marched to the Battle of Antietam, but did not participate in the fighting. The brothers fought at the Battle of Fredericksburg , suffering light casualties in the assaults on Marye's Heights, but they were forced to spend a miserable night on the freezing battlefield among the many wounded and dead from other regiments.
Location of Adams County in Nebraska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Adams County, Nebraska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Abraham Lincoln chose Maine's Hannibal Hamlin as his first Vice President. The future General Joshua L. Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment played a key role at the Battle of Gettysburg, and the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment lost more men in a single charge during the siege of Petersburg than any Union regiment in ...
Walter Goodale Morrill (November 13, 1840 – March 3, 1935) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station in November 1863.