FIRST REGIMENT MINNESOTA VOLUNTEERS WAR MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Location: GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK-HANCOCK AVENUE
City: GETTYSBURG
State: Pennsylvania
Zip Code: 17325
Type of Memorial: Statues War or Military Related
Year Dedicated: 1893
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: MIKE STROUD
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
AT GETTYSBURG GEN. HANCOCK ORDERED THE EIGHT COMPANIES OF MINNESOTA VOLUNTEERS TO CHARGE THE RAPIDLY ADVANCING ENEMY. THE CHARGE SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISHED ITS OBJECTIVE. IT SAVED THIS POSITION AND PROBABLY THE BATTLEFIELD. THE LOSS OF THE EIGHT COMPANIES IN THE CHARGE WAS 215 KILLED AND WOUNDED. MORE THAN 83 PERCENT. 47 MEN WERE STILL IN LINE AND NO MAN MISSING. IN SELF-SACRIFICING DESPERATE VALOR THIS CHARGE HAS NO PARALLEL IN ANY WAR.
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