In the annals of Minnesota’s participation in the Civil War, the First Minnesota Regiment gets most of the attention and accolades because of that unit’s heroic charge at Gettysburg. Plugging a gap in ...

Steven Hoffbeck details Col. William Colvill’s leadership of the First Minnesota Regiment at Gettysburg in his new book.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month. Carried by ...

The grave of a Minnesota soldier killed in the Civil War will be re-dedicated this weekend. Pvt. Edmund Sampare of St. Paul died in the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862. A Minnesota soldier killed ...

BENSON — Buried in the Benson Cemetery are 16 Civil War veterans, the weathered white marble tombstones standing out among the more modern monuments. Some served in units from Minnesota while others ...