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The 1st Regiment Minnesota Volunteers, part of the 1st Brigade, 2d Division, 2d Corps, fought at Gettysburg on July 3rd 1863, when the survivors of the regiment helped repel Pickett's Charge here and then ran to aid Webb's Brigade, taking a conspicuous part in the counter-charge that successfully ended the conflict. In that action the regiment lost 17 additional killed and wounded and captured a Confederate flag. Its captains, Nathan S. Messick and Wilson B. Farrell, who were successfully commanding the regiment there, were killed. Total killed and wounded in the battle were 232 out of 330 engaged.
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