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First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry-Civil War: Secondary Sources: Books & Articles

Articles

Frank J. Mead, Corporal, First Minnesota Infantry, Company B.

“Campaigning with the First Minnesota: A Civil War Diary/ Edited by Hazel C. Wolf,” by Isaac Lyman Taylor.
In Minnesota History, vol. 25 (1944): pp. 11-39,117-152, 224-257, 342-361.
MNHS call number: Digital Copy of Part 1Part 2Part 3, and Part 4.

“The Battle of Gettysburg as seen by Minnesota Soldiers,” by Anne A. Hage.
In Minnesota History, vol. 38, no. 6 (1963): pp. 245-257.
MNHS call numberDigital Copy 

Books

The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers, by Richard Moe.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E515.5 1st .M64 2001, also available for purchase 

No More Gallant a Deed: A Civil War Memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers, by James A. Wright.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E515.5 1st .W75 2001, also available for purchase

Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg by Brian Leehan.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E475.53 .L48 2002, also available for purchase

Minnesota in the Civil War, by Kenneth Carley.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E515 .C2 2000, also available for purchase 

Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865prepared and published under the supervision of the Board of Commissioners appointed by the act of the legislature of Minnesota of April 16, 1889.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E515 .M66 2005

Every Man Did His Duty: Pictures and Stories of the Men of the First Minnesota, by Wayne D. Jorgenson.
Minneapolis, MN: Tasora Books, 2012.
MNHS call number: Reading Room FOLIO E515.5 1st .J67 2012, also available for purchase

History of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, by Return I. Holcombe. 
Hudson, WI: St. Croix Valley Civil War Round Table, 2006.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E515.5 1st.H65 2006

 

Bibliographies

Minnesota in the Civil War, 1861-1866: A Bibliography of Published Sources, by Stephen E. Osman.
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society, 2006.
MNHS call number: Digital Copy 

Minnesota’s Civil War Soldiers: Personal Accounts and Primary Sources at the Minnesota Historical Society, by Stephen E. Osman.
MNHS call number: Digital Copy 

Resources for Civil War History at the Minnesota Historical Society, by Hampton Smith. 
Saint Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society, 1998.
MNHS call number: Digital Copy 

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