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The First Minnesota and the Siege of Yorktown - May 5, 1862
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal By Darryl Sannes Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force On May 5, 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac entered the abandoned Confederate entrenchments at Yorktown, Virginia. The first major confrontation in this campaign … Continue reading
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