In memory of heroes

Awhile back, Bunnie tagged me in a book meme. I mentioned McKinley Kantor's Gettysburg, in which the heroic tale of the First Minnesota Volunteers is movingly told.

Here's the story as it's told at the Park Service's Battlefield site.

I still get chills up and down my spine.

The picture is the First Minnesota Monument at the battlefield, from the Park Service site.