1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment

1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
	Regimental Banner of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Inspired former flag of Minnesota)
Active	April 29, 1861, to April 2, 1864 (July 15, 1865 as 1st Minnesota Infantry Battalion)
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Equipment	M1861 Springfield .58 Rifle-musket; M1842 Springfield .69 Smoothbore; M1842 Springfield .69 Rifle-musket; M1855 Springfield .58 Rifle-musket ; Sharps Rifle (Company L only)
Engagements	American Civil War First Battle of Bull Run (1861); Battle of Ball's Bluff (1861); Siege of Yorktown (Not Engaged) (1862); Battle of Seven Pines (1862); Battle of Savage's Station (1862); Battle of Malvern Hill (In Reserve) (1862); Second Battle of Bull Run (Rearguard) (1862); Battle of Antietam (1862); Battle of Fredericksburg (In Reserve) (1863); Second Battle of Fredericksburg (1863); Battle of Gettysburg (1863); Battle of Bristoe Station (1863); Battle of Mine Run (1863); ;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Colonel Willis A. Gorman; Colonel Napoleon J.T. Dana; Colonel Alfred Sully; Colonel George N. Morgan; Colonel William J. Colvill

The 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment was a Union infantry regiment active during the American Civil War that participated in the battles of First Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg. The regiment is famous for charging into a brigade of Confederate soldiers on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg when Major General Winfield Scott Hancock ordered them to do so. This blunted the Confederate attack and helped preserve the Union's precarious position on Cemetery Ridge.