re: #318 thedopefishlives

As well as the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, who made a name for themselves standing in the gap after Dan Sickles’s ill-fated maneuver into the Peach Orchard. They lost 215 of their 262 men that hot July afternoon, but they held off the incoming brigade until the reserves could be brought into line.

Did you know that the last time the U.S. military fought a full-fledged cavalry battle was…2003!