• First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
  • A dead Union soldier from the 3rd Army Corps represents the battle from earlier that day.
  • A soldier takes up the flag of the Minnesota regiment after the color bearer was shot.
  • Col. William Colville leading the charge moments before being twice wounded.
  • The Alabama Brigade of the Confederate Army, lead by Gen. Cadmus Wilcox.
  • Rocks and stream are known landmarks of the Plum Run rivulet.
  • Interviews and photographs of veterans were used as reference for the painting.
  • Of about 262 men ordered to charge, about three-quarters were killed or wounded.
  • On the ridge behind the Minnesota volunteers is a Confederate regiment from Florida.
  • Yellow sky indicates the time of the battle, about 7:00 p.m. on July 2, 1863.
Detail from
Billy Steve Clayton, Star Tribune
Detail from "The Battle of Gettysburg," painted by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum.