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1) The last full measure: the life and death of the First Minnesota Volunteers

Author

Moe, Richard

Publisher

Minnesota Historical Society Press

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

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Since its publication, Richard Moe's The Last Full Measure has garnered a reputation as the definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment and one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War.
The First Minnesota Volunteers, the first regiment offered to President Lincoln after the fall of Fort Sumter, served in virtually every major battle fought in the eastern theater during the first three years of the Civil War. This...

2) Every man did his duty: pictures & stories of the men of the First Minnesota / Wayne D. Jorgenson

Author

Jorgenson, Wayne D

Publisher

Tasora Books

Publication Date

c2012

Physical Desc

xvi, 304 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 31 cm.

Language

English

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"The First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was the first volunteer regiment offered in service to President Lincoln after the fall of Ft. Sumter. Men and boys attended patriotic rallies throughout the young state and signed their names to papers that pledged they would answer the president's call. They were strong men, toughened by rugged pioneer life, and in the next three years they drew on that strength time and again. The men of the First...

3) "Colvill smiled": the legend of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Regiment at Gettysburg : July 2, 1863. May the legend never die

Author

Hoffbeck, Steven R

Publisher

Hoffbeck of Minnesota

Publication Date

2025

Language

English

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In this book, "Colvill Smiled," Minnesota-born-and-raised-historian Steve Hoffbeck tells the powerful Civil War stories of William Colvill and Martin Maginnis, officers of the First Minnesota Regiment. The recollections, speeches, and writings of these two Minnesotans from Red Wing are woven into the narrative of the regiment's legendary deeds as they fought in Virginia, in Maryland, and in Pennsylvania. The regiment started out with 1,000 men, amid...