Assorted Historical Sketches
Minnesota Military History
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- Camp Ripley
- Old Fort Ripley
- Forts on the Minnesota Frontier
- Indian Wars of Minnesota
- Minnesota and the Civil and Indian Wars
- The First Minnesota and the Battle of Gettysburg
- Minnesota National Guard
- Minnesota on the Mexican Border, 1916
- Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr.
- Maj. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh
- Maj. Gen. George E. Leach
- 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard)
- 34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division 1917-2015
- 47th "Viking" Infantry Division 1946-1991
- 99th Infantry Battalion (Sep) 1941-1945