Minnesota into the Breach Again

[kairos12]

Last edited Fri Jan 30, 2026, 08:38 AM - Edit history (1)

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/charge-1st-minnesota

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“I had no alternative but to order the regiment in. We had no force on hand to meet the sudden emergency. Troops had been ordered up and were coming on the run, but I saw that in some way five minutes must be gained or we were lost. It was fortunate that I found there so grand a body of men as the 1st Minnesota. I knew they must lose heavily and it caused me pain to give the order for them to advance, but I would have done it even if I had known every man would be killed. It was a sacrifice that must be made. The superb gallantry of those men saved our line from being broken.”

Gettysburg. 1863. I would just borrow from that last line and edit: Today, the superb gallantry of those men and women saved our line from being broken.

Minnesota held the line against the traitors in 1863. They do so again today against Trump's Traitors. Thank you Minnesota.

[niyad]

1. Thank you.

[Klondike Kat]

2. The battle flag of the 28th Virgina

was captured by the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg and resides at the Minnesota Historical Society. Virginia has asked for it to be returned on several occasions, but we've always said "Nope".

[kairos12]

5. I hope their reply was done

in the most courteous way by saying, " Hey, Virginia Traitors f... you, and the horse you rode in on." Politely, of course.

[summer_in_TX]

3. A remarkable bit of history I never knew before.

Superb gallantry then. And now.

Thank you for making the connection and sharing that!

[kairos12]

4. You are most welcome.

[Pinback]

6. The 1st Minnesota saw a lot of action

in several of the Civil War’s major battles. An inspiration to us all.

http://firstminnesota.org/the-original-cast.html

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Minnesota has always given its best.

The urn is in Gettysburg National Cemetery, part of Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Made of marble, it was installed by surviving members of the First Minnesota Infantry Regiment in the fall of 1867. The urn was placed in the Minnesota section of the cemetery where 52 of the 75 soldiers of the First, killed or mortally wounded in the battle, were laid to rest. The urn was the first monument or memorial placed on the Gettysburg Battlefield. It would be another 12 years before the next state monument was placed.

In the autumn of 1867, four years after the bloodbath, those from the First Minnesota who were still alive returned to Gettysburg to place the urn and pedestal on a granite base to memorialize their fallen comrades. Thus, 2017 marks the 150th anniversary.

http://www.paulawhitacre.com/blog/2017/12/3/minnesota-urn