Editing 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment (section)

===Organization and early service===
[[File:MHS 1st Minnesota Insignia.jpg|thumb|Plain brass First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry badge worn on the [[kepi]]. It was worn by Sergeant Chesley Billings Tirrell of Company C. The officers version was nickel plated. The [[trefoil]] was the Corps emblem of the II Corps that the 1st Minn. was attached to.[http://www.mnhs.org Minnesota Historical Society.] ]]

On April 14, 1861, [[Minnesota]] Governor [[Alexander Ramsey]] was visiting [[Washington, D.C.]] when he first heard news of the attack. He went with [[Morton S. Wilkinson|Senator Wilkinson]] to rush to the office of the [[Secretary of War]], [[Simon Cameron]] to offer 1,000 Minnesotan Soldiers to the [[Union Army]]. Two days later, the Adjutant General of Minnesota, William H. Acker, issued an order for Minnesota's Commissary General, H. Z. Mitchell, to enlist men for Minnesota's 1st Regiment.<ref>latest, St. Cloud Democrat, April 18, 1861, p.3 Image 3, Chronciling American, Library of Congress, 2023, [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016836/1861-04-18/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1861&index=1&rows=20&words=Gen+H+Mitchell+Z&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1862&proxtext=Gen+H.+Z.+Mitchell&y=10&x=11&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1]</ref>  Word spread and communities in Minnesota quickly raised companies of [[United States Volunteers|volunteers]] identified by locality.  The companies traveled to the newly reactivated [[Fort Snelling]] to be enlisted into the regiment on April 29.  These companies were the first troops offered by any state to meet [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s call for 75,000 men to assist the [[Federal Government]] to deal with the [[secession]]. On May 10, they were re-enlisted for 3 more years of service. From Fort Snelling, they boarded [[steamboat|river boats]] heading south to a rail line, whereafter they headed east.

[[Josias R. King|Josias Ridgate King]] of the St. Paul Pioneer Guard is credited as being the first northern volunteer to stand to for Lincoln's call for men to fight the Confederacy.<ref>King, Josias R. (1832–1916), MNopedia, Brian Leehan, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota [https://www.mnopedia.org/person/king-josias-r-1832-1916]</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
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! Company !! Earliest Moniker !! Primary Location of Recruitment !! Earliest Captain
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| A || Pioneer Guard || [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]] || [[Alexander Wilkin]]
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| B || Stillwater Guard || [[Stillwater, Minnesota|Stillwater]] || Carlyle A. Bromley
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| C || St. Paul Volunteers || St. Paul || William H. Acker
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| D || Lincoln Guards || [[Minneapolis]] || Henry R. Putnam
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| E || St. Anthony Zouaves || [[St. Anthony, Minnesota|St. Anthony]] || [[George N. Morgan]]
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| F || Red Wing Volunteers<br>or Goodhue County Volunteers || [[Red Wing, Minnesota|Red Wing]] || William J. Colvill, Jr.
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| G || Faribault Guards || [[Faribault, Minnesota|Faribault]] || William H. Dike
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| H || Dakota County Volunteers || [[Hastings, Minnesota|Hastings]] || [[Charles Powell Adams]]
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| I || Wabasha Volunteers || [[Wabasha, Minnesota|Wabasha]] || [[John H. Pell]]
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| K || Winona Volunteers || [[Winona, Minnesota|Winona]] || Henry C. Lester
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| L || [[2nd Minnesota Sharpshooters Company|Sharpshooters]]<br>(Company A, [[2nd United States Sharpshooters]]) || [[Rice County, Minnesota|Rice]] & [[Steele County, Minnesota|Steele]] Counties|| William Russell
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