A Piece of the War Acquired in Minnesota

From the June 30, 2021, Red Lake Nation News  Recently acquired Confederate shirt and 1906 cavalry uniform speak to expanded   military stories at historic Fort Snelling."

The Minnesota  Historical Society recently acquired a Confederate shirt used to bind a wound received by a Minnesota soldier.

On the second day of the Battle of Nashville on December 16, 1864, Henry L. Mills, a sergeant in the 7th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was shot in the leg.  In an effort to staunch the flow of blood, Mills grabbed the shirt of a slain Confederate soldier and used it as a tourniquet.  

The shirt remains stained with Mills' blood.

Mills mustered out of Union service at Fort Snelling and returned to St. Paul, where he recovered and lived to the age of 92.

--Old Secesh