History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry

HILL, ALFRED J., History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry... With an Appendix by Capt. Charles J. Stees. St. Paul: Pioneer Press Co., 1899. 45pp. Frontis. Original printed stapled wrappers. Both wrappers detached and chipped. Fair. 

First edition.   In the spring of 1862 the Governor of Minnesota called for volunteers to form a company of men to be sent to Virginia to fight for the Union Army. Company E was formed from the 94 men recruited. They began to drill and prepare at Ft. Snelling in July and August of 1862. Plans changed in mid-August of 1862 when the Sioux Indians attacked and massacred scores of settlers in the Minnesota River Valley. This account chronicles the activities of these volunteers as they pursue the Sioux to punish them for their crimes and liberate the many captive women and children. The later involvement of Company E in the Civil War in 1864 and 1865, in Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Alabama is also recorded here.