History of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1864 [electronic resource]: with maps and illustrations . we will come some day,and when we do, youll get your licking all right. The Union boys asked questions, too, and oftenembarrassing queries. They delighted to confusethe Confederates by asking what they were fightingfor—what rights of theirs were in danger, how manynegro slaves they owned, or ever expected to own,etc. Of course there had to be drills and reviews andfatigue duty and the other routine of a soldierscamp life; but the time passed very well. On the10th of June G
History of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1864 [electronic resource]: with maps and illustrations . we will come some day,and when we do, youll get your licking all right. The Union boys asked questions, too, and oftenembarrassing queries. They delighted to confusethe Confederates by asking what they were fightingfor—what rights of theirs were in danger, how manynegro slaves they owned, or ever expected to own,etc. Of course there had to be drills and reviews andfatigue duty and the other routine of a soldierscamp life; but the time passed very well. On the10th of June General Couch, the Second Corps veryexcellent leader, was after repeated requests, relievedfrom the command of that corps and transferred tothe head of the new Department of the Susquehanna,and Major-General Hancock, the superb soldier, solong in command of the First Division became thecommander of the trefoil corps. General Sully got a command in Dakota to fightthe Sioux, and May 10 bade the First Regiment good-bye and set out for his new field, followed by thegood wishes of every man in the regiment. Gen. Wm. 302. i:vt. mill!, i;i:x. wjlliaai imlvili. Tin Jiiltli Culniiil Dl the JicsrillUlll. IX CAMP ON STAFFORD HEIGHTS Harrow succeeded to the command of the formerSully s Brigade. General Harrow had been colonelof the Fourteenth Indiana and won his stars fairlyunder Shields in the Shenandoah Valley and inFrenchs Division at Antietam. Colonel Morgans resignation as Colonel of theFirst Minnesota became effective May 5 and Wm. Colvill became colonel in his stead. Powell Adams became Lieutenant Colonel, andCapt. Mark Downie became Major. All the new fieldofficers took rank from May 6. 1863. 303 CHAPTER XXXYI. GENESIS OF THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN. AFTER Jacksons death at Chancellorsville, Leehad reorganized his army by dividing it intothree Corps. The First he left with his old warhorse, Longstreet; the Second, Jackson s old given to Gen. R. S. Ewell,
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