Hancock urged to where we were, if he comes to us, "Regiment of what's this?" "First Minnesota", Colvill replied. "Account that will bring the lines!" always to Hancock. Every human being realized in an instant what that order: death or injured for all of us, the sacrifice of the Regiment, a few minutes to gain time and save the position. And every individual and the need to sacrifice ...-Lieutenant William Lochren, 1st Minn. accepted. Infantry, written in 1893
02 July 1863, he was at Gettysburg. General Winfield Scott Hancock, to try to ward off the rebel massive attacks on the Centre of the Union on Cemetery Ridge, spotted a Brigade of the Alabamians to exploit a hole in their lines.What he had in hand was a single by the strength of the regiment.
Hancock launched the first Minnesota a suicidal free bayonet, the rebel line ordering and summary break their advance stop for a few precious minutes.The Alabama Brigade was defeated with heavy losses. Of the 262 Minnesotans, returned only to return to the line of the Union 47 unharmed.
There is a monument connection with them there, where Hancock ordered them in: a soldier of bronze on a huge granite base rushing forward to "free bayonet", set in provision. The monument was dedicated a quarter of a century later by some of the survivors. One of the places is more traffic in a field of thickness with them.
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