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John Bull@garius.bsky.social |
“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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John Bull
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The landscape is free of cover. As they fall First Minnesota scramble behind whatever protection they can find. Soon their pocket of resistance is so small that the surrounding Confederate forces are firing on themselves. The colours fall are picked up. Fall. Picked up. Fall. Picked up. /10
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They charge down the slope, over the stubble of an abandoned wheat field, and catch the vanguard of the Confederate forces just as they are crossing a dried up stream. Colonel Colvill, leading from the front, falls almost instantly, but the Confederate forces are checked. Shaken. /9
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