The 1st Minnesota Infantry at Gettysburg
The 1st Minnesota Infantry was organized at Fort Snelling in April of 1861 and mustered in on the 29th of the month. The regiment went into action at the first Battle of Bull Run...
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December 2013 Alonzo Cushing Medal of Honor Update
There’s been some progress in the ongoing campaign to award the Congressional Medal of Honor to Lt. Alonzo Cushing, the Delafield, Wisconsin native who was killed in action while directing his artillery battery during...
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
In November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln accepted an invitation to speak at the dedication ceremony for the new cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where the Union Army dead from the battle there in July were...
Chamberlain Medal Returns to Maine; Swamp Angel Honored: Civil War in the News Late Summer 2013
A Medal of Honor returns home and Trenton, New Jersey commemorates a cannon’s role in the Civil War in Civil War related news from August and September 2013. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s Medal of Honor...
Dr. Jonathan Letterman’s Report on the Union Army Medical Corps at Gettysburg
Dr. Jonathan Letterman was the Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. At the time, Letterman had only been in his position for a year...
Captain James Hall’s Report On the Action of the 2nd Maine Battery At Gettysburg
One of the first Union artillery units in action at Gettysburg on July 1st, 1863 was the six gun Battery B of the 2nd Maine Light Artillery, under the command of Captain James A....
Union Victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson; Assault on Fort Wagner: July 1863
July 1863 in the Civil War The Union Armies chalked up significant victories as three major campaigns concluded in July 1863. These overshadowed several other smaller, but still significant events in this pivotal...
Lt. Col. Rufus Dawes Describes the Fighting of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg began on the morning of July 1st, 1863 when Brigadier General John Buford’s cavalry engaged Major General Henry Heth’s Confederates outside the northwest corner of the town. Buford’s objective was...