Sacrifice of the 1st Minnesota

July 2, 1863 - Second Day

"Every man realized in an instant what that order meant - death or wounds to us all, the sacrifice of a regiment to gain a few minutes' time..."

Lieut. William Lochren, U.S.A.

1st Minnesota Infantry

Late on the ...

28th Massachusetts Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

(Around Base):28th Mass.

2nd Brig. 1st Div.

2nd Corps.

(Front):Faugh A Ballaugh

28th Mass. Inf'y

Vol.

Col. Richard Byrns Com.

Meagher's Irish Brig.

Col. Patrick Kelly. Com.

This regt. went into battle

July 2. 1863.

Numbering 220

officers and men.

101 of whom

were killed or wounded.

Erected by the survivors

and friends ...

18th Massachusetts Volunteers

1st Brigade, 1st Division

(Front):18th.

Mass. Vol.s

First Brig.

First Div.

5th Corps.

"Let Us Have Peace"

(Right): July 2, 1863.

(Left):Little Round Top

July 3, 1863.

Marker is on Sickles Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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22nd Massachusetts Infantry

1st Brigade, 1st Division

(Around Upper Facings):22nd Mass. Infty.

1st Brigade

1st Division

5th Corps

(Left):First Colonel

Henry Wilson

succeeded by

Jesse A. Cove

Killed June 27, 1862.

(Back):The

22nd Mass. Infty.

stood here

July 2, 1863

Marker is on Sickles Avenue, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

32nd Massachusetts Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

Here the

32nd Massachusetts Infy.

2nd Brig. 1st. Div. 5th A.C.

withstood an attack of the enemy

about 5 o'clock p.m. July 2, 1863

Withdrawn here, it fought again in the

Wheatfield

Lost in both actions

killed and wounded

79 out of 227 officers and men

Marker ...

Sacramento Skyline

West Sacramento River Walk

Just across the river and county line from West Sacramento is the City of Sacramento, seen here in a 1920s photograph looking east from 4th Street down J Street. California’s capital city, which is also the seat ...

Field Hospital of the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

Behind this group of rocks, on the afternoon of July 2nd, 1863, Surgeon Z. Boylston Adams placed the Field Hospital of the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 1st Div., 5th Army Corps. Established so near the line ...

Webster Massacre

1 ¾ miles east to the graves of the victims of the Webster Massacre which occurred August 27, 1839 when John Webster and a party of about thirty, en route to a land grant in Burnet County, were attacked by ...

Webster Massacre

Here sleep

the victims of the

Webster Massacre

of August 27, 1839 About thirty homeseekers headed by John Webster en route to what is now Burnet County, were attacked by a band of Comanche Indians. After attempting to flee under cover of ...

15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

(Front):

15th Reg. Mass. Vols.

Here, September 17, 1862, the Fifteenth Reg. Mass.

Volunteers, with the First Company Andrew Sharpshooters

attached, 606 men of all ranks, commanded by

Lieut. Col. John W. Kimball, Gorman's Brigade.

Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps.

met and engaged troops of ...