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1st Minnesota Company C

	Soldier	Rank
	Captain Arbyz
	Captain Azimuth
	Captain Hayes
	Captain Kenny
	1st Lieutenant alg
	2nd Lieutenant Arteeshif
	Sergeant Zackary Zanto
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The men of the 1st Minnesota are most remembered for their actions on July 2, 1863, during the second day's fighting at Gettysburg, where the regiment prevented the Confederates from pushing the Federals off of Cemetery Ridge, a position that was to prove crucial in the battle.

Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, commander of II Corps, ordered the regiment to assault a much larger enemy force (a brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox), telling Col. William Colvill to take the enemy's colors. The fateful charge bought the time needed for other forces to be brought up. During the charge, 215 members of the 262 men who were present at the time became casualties in five minutes, including the regimental commander, Col. William Colvill, and all but three of his captains.

The unit's flag fell five times and was raised again each time. The 47 survivors rallied back to General Hancock under the senior surviving officer, Captain Nathan S. Messick. The 82% casualty rate stands to this day as the second-largest loss by any surviving military unit in U.S. history during a single day's engagement, allegedly equaled only by the 33rd Alabama Infantry during the Battle of Perryville (though that second figure is questioned by some historians), and exceeded only by the slightly higher casualties of the 1st Texas in Miller's Cornfield at Antietam. The unit's flag is now in the Minnesota Capitol's rotunda     WE ARE ACTIVE AND RECRUITING  WEEKEND EVENTS ALL WEEKEND

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Company Records	Date
Recruit Obadiah Swartzendruber cowardly deserted from 1st Minnesota Company C	2024-11-19
Corsair's role was changed from No Role to Enlisted by Hayes	2023-09-02
Otto Schmied was enlisted into 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-09-02
Recruit Evilarmor21 was honourably discharged from 1st Minnesota Company C by Hayes	2023-09-02
Corsair was enlisted into 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-09-02
Recruit %!{¤{€$=}=(@@[@€/€ was honourably discharged from 1st Minnesota Company C by Hayes	2023-09-02
Darklighter was enlisted into 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-09-02
kevin was enlisted into 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-09-02
Robert Stuber was enlisted into 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-09-02
Recruit Willie Stone East was honourably discharged from 1st Minnesota Company C by Hayes	2023-09-02
Recruit TreeTop_09 was honourably discharged from 1st Minnesota Company C by Hayes	2023-09-02
Witt volunteered to join 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-08-27
kevin volunteered to join 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-08-22
Gavin James Gray volunteered to join 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-08-19
Robert Stuber volunteered to join 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-08-05
Darklighter volunteered to join 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-07-25
Darklighter volunteered to join 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-07-25
Darklighter volunteered to join 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-07-17
Corsair volunteered to join 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-07-17
Talor volunteered to join 1st Minnesota Company C	2023-07-15

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