Battle flag of the Twenty-eighth Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Battle flag of the Twenty-eighth Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The Army of Northern Virginia Confederate battle flag of the Twenty-eighth Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Captured by Private Marshall Sherman of St. Paul while serving with the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company C, during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.

Battle flags in the Capitol Rotunda

Battle flags in the Capitol Rotunda

Civil War battle flags on display in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol, ca. 1970.

Black-and-white photograph of the site where the Dakota and Ojibwe fought the Battle of Shakopee in 1858.

Battle ground where the Dakota and Ojibwe fought the Battle of Shakopee in 1858

Black-and-white photograph of the site where the Dakota and Ojibwe fought the Battle of Shakopee in 1858. Photographed c.1875 by William H. Jacoby.

Lithograph interpretation of the Battle of Birch Coulee, 1912.

Battle of Birch Coulee

Lithograph interpretation of the Battle of Birch Coulee, 1912.

Battle of Gettysburg oil painting by Rufus Zogbaum

Battle of Gettysburg oil painting by Rufus Zogbaum

Painting of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg by Rufus Zogbaum, 1907. The painting is in the Governor's Reception Room at the Minnesota State Capitol.

Battle of Kelly's Field

Battle of Kelly's Field

1890 painting depicting the Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 20, 1863. Painted by artists Harry J. Kellogg, 1890.

Oil painting done by Carl L. Boeckmann in 1910 depicting the Battle of Killdeer Mountain on July 28, 1864.

Battle of Killdeer Mountain

Oil painting done by Carl L. Boeckmann in 1910 depicting the Battle of Killdeer Mountain on July 28, 1864.

Painting depicting the charge of Minnesotans at the Battle of Nashville

Battle of Nashville

Howard Pyle's 1906 painting depicts the charge of the Minnesotans at the Battle of Nashville, December 16, 1864. It hangs in the Governor's Reception Room at the Minnesota State Capitol.

Battle of Wood Lake

Battle of Wood Lake

Drawing of the Battle of Wood Lake, c.1896. From A thrilling narrative of the Minnesota massacre and the Sioux War of 1862–63 (A.P. Connolly. Chicago, 1896.)

Ricing sticks (bawa'iganaakoog)

Bawa'iganaakoog (ricing sticks)

Pair of bawa'iganaakoog (ricing sticks or knockers) wrapped with cloth tape. Made and used by Robert Gawboy Jr. (Bois Forte Band of Chippewa) between 1940 and 1960.

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