The definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the
Civil War. Since its publication, Richard Moe's The Last Full Measure
has garnered a reputation as the definitive history of the First
Minnesota Regiment and one of a handful of classic regimental histories
of the
Civil War.
Pale Horse at Plum Run —
The First Minnesota at Gettysburg
by Brian Leehan
This stirring narrative reconstructs in amazing detail the story of
a remarkable band of soldiers at this seminal Civil War battle.
The smoke had just cleared from the last volley of musketry at Gettysburg.
Nearly 70 percent of the First Minnesota regiment lay dead or dying
on the field -- one of the greatest losses of any unit engaged in
the Civil War. Pale Horse at Plum Run is the study of this single
regiment at this crucial moment in American history. Through painstaking
research of firsthand accounts, eyewitness reports, and official records,
Brian Leehan constructs a narrative remarkable for its attention to
detail and careful reportage.
