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This Day in Minnesota History

December 7, 1864

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The Eighth Minnesota Regiment helps defend Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from a Confederate attack, suffering ninety casualties. Murfreesboro had been the scene of the Third Minnesota's surrender two and a half years earlier.

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