Minnesota

On Shy's Hill on December 16, 1864, Minnesota troops made what historians call the decisive charge in the decisive battle of the Civil War, helping bring about the destruction of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. The 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Minnesota Infantry Regiments served in the 1st Division of XVI Corps, fighting as a detachment of the Union Army of Tennessee. Minnesota suffered the most Union killed and wounded in the Battle of Nashville, and John Milton Benthall, Pvt., Co. C, 10th MN Infantry, memorialized the dead as comrades who had marched side by side through danger and privation, now lying on the steep hillside with their battles ended and the Brentwood hills, forest trees, and winds serving as their eternal monument and requiem.

Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance), Tennessee · United States