This Day in Minnesota History

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Today's Date: September 20

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1863

At the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia, the Second Minnesota is one of the few Union units on hand to repel a fierce Confederate attack. Casualties claim one-third of the regiment, with forty-five dead, 103 wounded, and fourteen captured out of the 382 engaged in battle.
1891

August Schell, founder of August Schell Brewing Company in New Ulm, dies. Born in Durbach, Germany, in 1828, Schell had moved to Minnesota in 1856. Four years later, with Jacob Bernhardt, he founded a small brewery on the banks of the Cottonwood River.
1939

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is the keynote speaker at the first meeting of the Women's Institute in St. Paul.