Mohave County miner., 1882-11-19
THE FIRST MINNESOTA.
Tine Most Gallant Charge of the
 War.

lowing account of a splendid achieve ment at the battle of Gettysburg from an unpublished manuscript lec- ture, written by the Hon. Martin Maginnis, of Montana, who was an actor in the scene he describes. Col. Bachelder, the historian, in one of the meetings last winter at General Dudley's office, narrated this incl dent briefly, as one of the most re- markable charges of the war, and said he had often been asked by Con- federate officers who were present to tell them what regiment iti was that came at them so heroically just as their troops pursuing Sickles' broken corps had nearly reached the crest of Cemetery Ridge. It is not neces- sary to add anything to the graphic description of Maj. Maginnis. The Army of the Potomac had no finer regiment than the First Minnesota, and its whole history may be ran sacked in vain to find more heroic charge than this regiment made on the second day at Gettysburg:l
 The morning was foggy, sultry, and murky, and spent chiefly iE skirmishing and desuItory cannon ading. The sharp-shooters on our front contesting the right to hold the farm-houses, which were alternately occupied by either side, and finally burned. About ? p, m., Gen. Sickles made a reconnaissance, which devel- oped the preseneo of the enemy in light force on his front, WnScSGpssS.n pen
 he moved his corps to the front and occupied an intermediate ridge, the right forming along the Emmetts- burg road to inc peach orchard from which his left bent back to the foot of Round Top. The enemy opened batteries far to Sickles' left. The rattling fire of the skirmishers deep ened into the continuous roll of mus ketry as the enemy threw forward forces to dispute his advance. The artillery opened on both sides with vigor, and the engagement became general all along the front of his line. The enemy at this time were quiet Cn our extreme right, while in the centre the batteries alone were engaged. Two companies of the First (the Red Wing Company and the Second Sharpshooters) were out on the sklrmish line. Another was on provost guard, and the other eight were detached from our proper brigade position and sent down to the left to form a reserve support for a section of United States Artillery, which was posted on that part of the ridge from which Sickles had just advanced.
 Once there, although obliged to keep low and not expose ourselves to the cannon balls, shells, and bull lets, which, coming over the heads of the troops in front, went whistling audibursting .s5ove and around us, we 6eheId grand sight. Below and before Is on the plain the battle was fetcely raging. Every movement of the opposing troops was discernible aud we watched them with the anx- i9ty of spectators so deeply interest ed in the result: though but little of 9his could be seen in the faces of our tmen, who, long accustomed to con ceal their emotions beneath the mask of reckless indifference, were with tapparent unconcern criticising i'm is.11...ssal Ia,fghting of friend and
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