Officers of Minnesota's First Volunteer Infantry, 1862

Officers of Minnesota's First Volunteer Infantry, 1862

This photograph of the Minnesota First Infantry Volunteer Regiment's officers was taken in 1862. From left to right(back row): Cpt. Wilson B. Farrell, Lt. Samuel T. Raguet, Lt. Charles Zierenberg, Cpt. Louis Muller, and Cpt. Henry Coates. Colonel Mark Downie is seated. Muller and Zierenberg were both mortally wounded at the Battle of Cemetery Ridge on the first day of Gettysburg, and Farrell was killed the next day during Pickett's charge, leaving Coates as the only man pictured to avoid death or major injury in the war. Downie was the first wounded officer to return to command that October, after surviving two wounds to his right arm, a bullet through his left foot, and shell damage to his left lung at Gettysburg.

Officers of the First Minnesota Volunteers

Officers of the First Minnesota Volunteers

Officers of the First Minnesota Volunteers standing in front of the commandant's house at Fort Snelling, May, 1861.

Officers of the First Minnesota Volunteers at Camp Stone

Officers of the First Minnesota Volunteers at Camp Stone

Captain Mark Downie (seated) and officers of Compnay B, First Minnesota Volunteers at Camp Stone near Edwards Ferry, Virginia, March 16, 1862. Photograph by Matthew B. Brady.

Black and white photograph of officers of the Sixteenth Battalion, Minnesota Home Guard, c.1918.

Officers of the Sixteenth Battalion, Minnesota Home Guard

Officers of the Sixteenth Battalion, Minnesota Home Guard, c.1918. (L to R) Lt. Homer Goins, Capt. Clarence Wigington, Lt. Patrick H. Southall, unidentified, Major Jose H. Sherwood, unidentified, unidentified, Capt. Orrington C. Hall.

Officers of the Veterans’ Association of the Great Northern Railway

Officers of the Veterans’ Association of the Great Northern Railway

Officers of the Veterans’ Association of the Great Northern Railway in 1913. Association of the Great Northern Railway, 1908‒1914 (Minnesota: The Association, [1914?]).

Black and white stereoview of officers-in-training at Fort Snelling, ca. 1917.

Officers-in-training

Stereoview of officers-in-training at Fort Snelling, ca. 1917.

Black and white photograph of officers-in-training building a trench at Fort Snelling, 1917.

Officers-in-training build a trench at Fort Snelling

Officers-in-training build a trench at Fort Snelling, 1917.

Black and white photograph of Officers’ training camp barracks at Fort Snelling, ca. 1917.

Officers’ training camp barracks at Fort Snelling

Officers’ training camp barracks at Fort Snelling, ca. 1917.

Official Minnesota tartan

Official Minnesota tartan

The official Minnesota tartan. Even weave plaid of predominately royal blue and pine green, with bright yellow, fuchsia, black, and white. Designed by Mark Osweiler of Clan Guthrie and designated the Minnesota tartan by Senate resolution on February 4, 2002.

Official senatorial portrait of Henrik Shipstead

Official senatorial portrait of Henrik Shipstead

Official portrait of Senator Shipstead, ca. 1925.

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