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Legendary Minnesotans: The Confederate Flag We Won t Give Back

Legendary Minnesotans: The Confederate Flag We Won t Give Back
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Early, Jubal A (1816–1894) – Encyclopedia Virginia

Early, Jubal A (1816–1894) – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Legendary Minnesotans: The Confederate Flag We Won t Give Back

Get our free mobile app In this week s edition of Legendary Minnesotans, it s an entire Minnesota regiment that captured Virginia s battle flag at Gettysburg that is legendary.and so to, in a smaller way, are the state officials saying, Nope.we re not giving it back, you can stop asking. How the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment Captured Virginia s Confederate Battle Flag Minnesota Historical Society At a dire moment on the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, commander of II Corps ordered the 1st Minnesota to charge into a brigade of roughly 1200 men of James Longstreet s corps and Richard H. Anderson s Division, which it did with roughly 250 men.

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Christian, William S (1830–1910) – Encyclopedia Virginia

William Steptoe Christian was born on December 26, 1830, in Middlesex County, the son of Elizabeth Robinson Steptoe Christian and Richard Allen Christian, a physician who in 1838 became a Baptist minister. His elder brother Joseph Christian served on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. William Christian attended local preparatory schools and in 1848 received an AB from Columbian College (later George Washington University), in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, in 1851 and returned to Middlesex County, where he began practicing medicine at Urbanna. On January 11, 1853, in Halifax County, North Carolina, Christian married Helen Elizabeth Steptoe, a cousin a few years older than he. They had two daughters and four sons, two of whom died in infancy, before her death on December 6, 1898. Christian married Alice Taylor Woodward, of Middlesex County, on July 10, 1900. They had no children.

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Cocke, Edmund R (1841–1922) – Encyclopedia Virginia

Early Years and Civil War Edmund Randolph Cocke was born at Oakland, one of two Cumberland County plantations owned by his parents, William Armistead Cocke and Elizabeth Randolph Preston Cocke, on March 25, 1841. In 1856 he matriculated at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University). Intellectually gifted but shy and sometimes indolent, Cocke ranked near the bottom of his class during the first of his two years at that institution. Nevertheless, in 1858 the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) accepted him as a transfer student with sophomore standing. During the secession crisis Cocke abandoned his studies, returned to Virginia, and on April 23, 1861, enlisted in the Black Eagle Rifles, a Cumberland County militia unit that mustered into Confederate service as Company E of the 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Elected second lieutenant in June 1861, he became first lieutenant in mid-1862 and captain in January 1863. The Black Eagle Rifles performed with d

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