7th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Henry Mills' Outfit-- Part 1

From MNopedia.

The 7th Minnesota Infantry served on Minnesota's troubled frontier in the summer of 1862 and into the  first half of 1863.  The regiment eventually headed south, taking part in a key battle that essentially destroyed a Confederate army.  They also participated in one of the final campaigns of the war.

They fought in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and were at the Birch Coulee and Wood Lake battles.

Then, they went south and fought Confederate Gen. Forrest's cavalry at the Battle of Tupelo July 14-15.  Then they pursued Confederate Gen. Sterling Price's army across Arkansas and Missouri.

Late in November, they arrived at Nashville where they joined Union Gen. George Thomas's troops facing Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee.

--Old Secesh