HISTORY SKETCHES

- Brief historical accounts on a variety of topics 

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• Camp Ripley
• Old Fort Ripley
• Forts on the Minnesota Frontier
• Indian Wars of Minnesota
• Minnesota and the Civil and Indian Wars
• The First Minnesota and the Battle of Gettysburg
• Minnesota National Guard
  
• Minnesota on the Mexican Border, 1916
• Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr.
• Maj. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh
• Maj. Gen. George E. Leach
• 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard)
• 34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division 1917-2015 
• 47th "Viking" Infantry Division 1946-1991
• 99th Infantry Battalion (Sep) 1941-1945