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This Day in Minnesota History

July 2, 1863

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At Gettysburg, 262 members of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment charge a much larger Confederate force, succeeding in slowing their advance but resulting in 215 casualties—a stunning 82 percent. The next day, the remaining soldiers help repel Pickett's charge, capturing the flag of the Twenty-eighth Virginia Regiment in the process.

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