2nd Minnesota Infantry

The Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteer Infantry fought at Chickamauga on September 19 and 20, 1863, engaging on the Reed's Bridge Road on September 19 and at Kelly's Field on the forenoon of September 20, where it was in every contest and repulsed the enemy opposing it. On Sunday, September 20, from 2:30 P.M. to 7:30 P.M., it occupied this position and successfully maintained it against repeated assaults by the enemy, withdrawing only after the attempt to take it had been abandoned. Of 384 men engaged, it lost 34 killed, 114 wounded, and 14 men captured while detailed for care of wounded, a total loss of 42 percent. According to the official report of Colonel Ferd'd Van Derveer, commanding the brigade, the 2nd Minnesota had not a single man among the missing or a straggler during the two days engagement. The regiment's commanders were Colonel James George, Lieutenant Colonel J. W. Bishop, and Major John B. Davis. It served in Third Brigade under Colonel Ferd'd VanDerveer, with the 9th Ohio, 35th Ohio, 87th Indiana, and Battery I, 4th U.S. Artillery; in Third Division under Brigadier General J. M. Brannan; in the 14th Army Corps under Major General Geo. H. Thomas; in the Army of the Cumberland under Major General W. S. Rosecrans. The battle dead and mortally wounded named from the regiment were Charles Fewster, Geo. H. Fry, Norman E. Case, C. S. Cutting, S. D. Calvert, A. H. Palmer, S. Taylor, F. J. Crabb, Cornelius Holland, Herman Raduentz, Charles Schuele, Jacob Seibert, O. M. Work, J. L. Kenny, J. B. Gere, J. McAuliff, Wm. Dudley, John Sherburne, Arnold Cochran, F. F. Sutorius, J. A. Cutting, J. A. Bigelow, Jacob Martig, C. Schilt, S. B. Neros, Alfonso Bogan, G. M. Gilchrist, P. Douthiel, P. Freyman, A. B. Rose, J. M. Foster, I. B. Pomeroy, D. B. Griffin, Alex Metzger, J.B. Hopewell, A. W. Bigelow, W. H. Weagunt, Wardwell Mathers, W. McCurdy, J. Schonmaker, F. Schneider, S. A. Mitchell, V. R. Barton, John Shouts, and J. C. Smith.

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