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John Bull@garius.bsky.social |
Colvill has 260 men. Hancock more than any other general gets the brutal role soldiers have to play in battle. Tomorrow he will face down Pickett’s charge, sitting high on his horse. “There are times when a Corps commander’s life does not count” Today, he needs the First Minnesota to die. /7
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John Bull
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“Every man realized in an instant what that order meant” Lieutenant William Lochran, standing nearby, writes later. “Death or wounds to us all.” With calm deliberation the First Minnesota dress their lines, fix bayonets and form into a tight unit barely 100 men wide. And then they begin to run. /8
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