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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Crowd gathered for the dedication of the First Minnesota monument at Gettysburg, 1897. Erected by the State of Minnesota on the spot near Cemetery Ridge where, on July 2, 1863, the regiment held the Union line against advancing Confederate soldiers.
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