8th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 8th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 8th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
caption=Flag of Minnesota
dates= June 2, 1862 to July 11, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=
The 8th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
ervice
The 8th Minnesota was mustered into Federal service at Fort Snelling and St. Paul, Minnesota between June 2 and September 1, 1862. It first served guarding the frontier in the Dakota War of 1862, and in 1864 was ordered south where they fought in Tennesee, the Carolinas and elsewhere.
It was mustered out on July 11, 1865.
Casualties
The 8th Minnesota Infantry suffered 1 officers and 26 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 56 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 83fatalities. [ [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmninf2.htm#8thinf Civil War Archive] ]
Colonels
*Colonel Minor T. Thomas - August 24, 1862, to July 11, 1865.
External links
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmninf1.htm The Civil War Archive]
References
cite book
last = Andrews
first = General C.C. ed.
title = Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars
publisher = Pioneer Press
date = 1891
cite book
last = Christianson
first = Theodore, LL.D., L.H.D.
title = History of Minnesota, vol. IV
publisher = The American Historical Society, Inc.
date = 1935
Notes
ee also
List of Minnesota Civil War Units
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