1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 613
John B. Sanborn. Ordered to Benton Barracks, Missouri, April 19,
1862. Participated in: Siege of Corinth, April 1, 1862; luka, September,
1862; Battle of Corinth, October, 1862; Siege of Vicksburg,
Raymond. Jackson, Champion Hills, assault on Vicksburg and capture
of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863; Mission Ridge, November, 1863.
Veteranized January, 1864. Allatoona, October, 1864; Sherman's
march through Georgia and Carolinas ; Bentonville, March 20, 1865;
Raleigh, 1865. Mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, July 19, 1865.
Discharged at Fort Snelling.
St. Louis County men on rosters of Fourth Regiment : U. S.
Ayers, Brady Johnson, W. B. Patton, Charles Stewart, Fred Stauff,
E. A. Tyler, and W. H. Van Valkenberg.
Fifth Minnesota Infantry.—Organized May, 1862, Col. Rudolph
Borges'rode of Shakopee. Col. Lucius F. Hubbard of Red Wing later
in command. Ordered to Pittsburg Landing, May 9, 1862. Left
three companies in Minnesota for garrison duty. Regiment in many
battles in 1862', including Siege of Corinth, April-May; Battle of luka,
September, 1862; Corinth, October, 1862. Minnesota detachment
engaged with Indians at Redwood, Minnesota, August 18, 1862 ; Siege
of Fort Ridgely, August 20-22, 1862; Fort Abercrombie, D. T.,
August, 1862. Regiment with Sixteenth Army Corps saw heavy
fighting in 1863, including: Jackson, Siege of Vicksburg, Assault of
Vicksburg, Mechanicsburg, Richmond, 1863. The regiment was at
Fort DeRussey, Louisiana, in March, 1864; then followed the Red
River fighting, March-May ; Lake Chicot, June, and Tupelo. July,
1864. In that month the regiment was veteranized. In August it
engaged in the Battle of Abbeyville. Ordered to Nashville, Tennessee,
in November, 1864, it took part in battle of Nashville, December
15-16. In April, 1865, it was at Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely,
and finally, on September 6, 1865, was mustered out in Demopolis,
Alabama.
M. Bruletti, James Farrell, N. Hettinger, \\'. G. Huston, and
J. McGraw were the St. Louis County men of the Fifth Regiment.
Sixth Minnesota Infantry.—Organized August, 1862. Ordered to
participate in Indian expedition forthwith. In battle with Indians at
Birch Coulee, September 2, and Wood Lake, September 22. 1862,
Garrison duty, frontier posts, next eight months, then actively in
field against Indians. Three engagements. Similar garrison duty
September, 1863 to June, 1864, then leaving for Helena, Arkansas,
Ordered to St. Louis, Missouri, November, 1864. thence to New
Orleans, January, 1865. With Sixteenth Army Corps engaged at
Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, April, 1865. Col. A. D. Nelson,
original commander, was ordered to frontier before the organization
was completed but he soon resigned and Col. Wm. Crooks appointed.
James H. La Fans seems to have been the only St. Louis County
man in that regiment.
Seventh Minnesota Infantry.—Organized in August. 1862*. Col.
Stephen Miller, of St. Cloud, commanding. Participated Indian expedition,
1862; battle Wood Lake, Minnesota. September 22. Garrison
duty frontier until May. 1863. Actively in field against Indians that
summer; engagements July 24, 26 and 28. Ordered St. Louis. Missouri,
October 27, 1863; thence to Paducah, Kentucky, April. 1864;
thence to Memphis. Tennessee, Assigned to Sixteenth Army Corps,
June, participating in: liattle of Tupelo. July; Tallahatchie. .August;
pursuit of I'rice from Arkansas to Missouri; P>attle of Nashville. Tennessee,
December, 1864. Last engagements Spanish Fort and Fort
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