The First Minnesota Volunteers at Gettysburg, The 150th Anniversary: Excerpted from "The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers"

The chapter on the First Minnesota's moment of supreme sacrifice at Gettysburg is the best thing of its kind that I have ever read. --James M. McPherson??This excerpted e-short would include a reworked introduction of the regiment, its call-up at Fort Snelling, the powerful chapter on the July 2-3, 1863 Battle at Gettysburg, and a revised prologue.