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is most famous for its pyrrhic charge at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, when it rushed into the teeth of a much larger Confederate attack on Cemetery Ridge and suffered a staggering 82 percent casualties. But when this image of the 1st Minnesota’s Company D was taken on May 21,

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