The First Minnesota at Gettysburg

When the Union center faced total collapse at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, only one force stood between the Union line and disaster. This episode follows the First Minnesota from their origin as the first regiment offered to the Union in 1861 to the moment they stepped into the Plum Run gap. We track the brutal math of their service, detailing the charge that cost 215 lives in six minutes, the struggle for the 28th Virginia flag, and the postwar defiance that ensured their sacrifice would never be erased from our state memory.