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Minnesota men at Camp Meade?

Members of the Fifteenth Regiment in their lodgings at Camp Mead, 1898.

Members of the 15th Minnesota Regiment boarding train for Camp Meade

Members of the Fifteenth Regiment boarding a train to Camp Mead, 1898.

15th Minnesota Volunteers at Camp McKenzie, Georgia

Quarters of the Fifteenth Regiment at Fort McKenzie, c.1898.

15th Minnesota Volunteers at Camp McKenzie

Officers of the Fifteenth Regiment at Fort McKenzie, c.1898.

15th regiment moved from Camp Ramsey on the State Fairgrounds to try and control the spread of typhoid fever

Temporary dwellings of the Fifteenth Regiment after abandoning the Fairgrounds, c.1898.

In 1898, four hundred members of the Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry were hospitalized with typhoid after camping at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. U.S. Army surgeons decided the epidemic's source was the public water of Minneapolis.

Joseph Godfrey

Joseph Godfrey, 1862. Drawing by Robert O. Sweeny.

Godfrey, Joseph (ca.1830–1909)

The US–Dakota War of 1862 was a turning point in Minnesota history. Joseph Godfrey, an enslaved man, joined the Dakota in their fight against white settler-colonists that summer and fall. He was one of only two African Americans to do so.