In the annals of Minnesota’s participation in the Civil War, the First Minnesota Regiment gets most of the attention and accolades because of that unit’s heroic charge at Gettysburg. Plugging a gap in ...

The grave of a Minnesota soldier killed in the Civil War will be re-dedicated this weekend. Pvt. Edmund Sampare of St. Paul died in the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862. A Minnesota soldier killed ...