1st Minnosota Volunteers, Company D. "Lincoln Guards"
About us
Regimental history- The 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment was the very first group of volunteers the Union received in response to the South's assault of Fort Sumter at the beginning of the United States Civil War. Minnesota's Governor Ramsey offered 1000 men to Lincoln immediately upon learning of the attack on the fort. He just happened to be in Washington when the news broke. Those men volunteered for a three-year commitment (1861-64) which was much longer than other states. During combat actions, the 1st Minnesota sustained substantial casualties at the battles of First Bull Run (20%) and Antietam (28%) and a staggering 82% at the Battle of Gettysburg, where the regiment's most famous actions occurred on the second day of the battle.
At a dire moment on the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, commander of II Corps ordered the 1st Minnesota to charge into a Southern brigade of roughly 1200 men of James Longstreet's corps and Richard H. Anderson's Division, which it did with 262 men. They were outnumbered by at least 5 to 1, but it was Gen. Hancock's only option to buy time for reinforcements to arrive. In 15 minutes, much of the regiment was killed or wounded, leaving only 47 men to respond to muster unharmed. One survivor stated afterward that he expected the advance to result in "death or wounds to us all..." The regiment immediately obeyed the order and Gen. Hancock was amazed at the unit discipline, valor, and the tremendous casualties taken in carrying out his order. This action blunted the Confederate attack and helped preserve the Union's precarious position on Cemetery Ridge at the end of the second day of the battle.
Group history- We started out as the 7th Missouri in the mod North and South for Mount & Blade: Napoleonic Wars as the founding regiment members were unsure of what side to fight for. Eventually, we rebranded into the 1st Navajo Light Artillery Battery after we stole the cannons of the enemy and used them against them. Finally, we settled on being company D of the 1st Minnesota in honor of our leader's background as a Minnesotan.
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