GDG- First Minnesota

[Kathy or Jim Semler]

John....it is one of those number games
If you use the number of  1st Minn. troops available for  Gettysburg, you 
get one percentage...
Take the number of troops that made that historic charge, and you get 
another.
It's all BS....It was an heroic grand charge!
Jim Semler
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Gross" <confederate at worldnet.att.net>
To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:15 PM
Subject: GDG- First Minnesota


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> Depending which source you want to believe, can it still be said that the
> First Minnesota suffered the highest percentage of killed and wounded on 
> Day
> 2 in any Civil War battle?
>
> For a century we used Fox's figure of 82%. More recent research says it 
> may
> be more like 70% +/-
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Gross
> confederate at att.net
>
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