The last full measure
Subtitle: the life and death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
By: Richard Moe.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1864); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; Minnesota -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
Description: "As the first troops offered to President Abraham Lincoln after the fall of Fort Sumter, the brave men of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment fought in virtually every major battle of the eastern theater during the first three years of the Civil War. From Bull Run to Antietam to Fredericksburg to their famed suicide charge at Gettysburg, these stalwart soldiers defended the Union and helped change the course of the war and their country's history"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-338) and index.
Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 1993.