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  • Brackett’s Battalion

    $15.95

    by Kurt D. Bergemann
    Paperback
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  • Go If You Think It Your Duty: A Minnesota Couple’s Civil War Letters

    $32.95

    by Andrea R. Foroughi
    Hardcover
    During the Civil War, James Madison Bowler and Elizabeth Caleff Bowler courted, married, became parents, and bought a farm. They attended dances, talked politics, and confided their deepest fears. However due to the war, they went to — and through — many of these events separately, sharing them with each other through ... ... more

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  • Minnesota in the Civil War: An Illustrated History

    $19.95 – $49.95

    by Kenneth Carley
    Hardcover / Paperback
    Although Minnesota was one of the least populated states in 1861 when the Civil War broke out, and had achieved statehood less than 3 years earlier, Minnesotans —many of Scandinavian origin who had recently arrived in America, and quite a few who had not even become citizens in the U.S. yet ... ... more

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  • No more Gallant a Deed: A Civil War Memoir of the first Minnesota Volunteers

    $34.95

    by James A. Wright, Orderly Sergeant in Company F; Steven J. Keillor, editor
    Hardcover
    Wright's memoir is based on his diaries and letters from this 3 years in Company F of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. Painstakingly edited by Keillor, this book has been called the fullest personal account of ... ... more

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  • Norwegians on the Prairie: Ethnicity and the Development of the Country Town

    $19.95 – $32.95

    by Odd Lovoll
    Hardcover / Paperback
    Lovoll, born in Norway and professor emeritus of history at St. Olaf College, has authored many books and articles on Norwegian immigration to the Upper Midwest. His earlier books, and those by many other authors, have generally been centered on experiences immigrants faced in big cities or on the hardships ... ... more

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  • Notable North Dakotans

    $8.95

    by Erling N. Rolfsrud
    Paperback
    Twenty-four true stories about the people who shaped the "Flickertail State." ... more

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  • The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers

    $17.95

    by Richard Moe
    Paperback
    Minnesota, the newest state in the Union, became the first to send volunteers to fight in the Civil War. That "first" perhaps marked the beginning of Minnesota's ongoing reputation as a very citizen-participatory state. In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln put out a call for troops. Shortly after that, MN Governor Ramsey volunteered 1,000 men ... ... more

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  • They Chose Minnesota

    $39.95

    June Drenning Holmquist; ed.
    Paperback
    Why did emigrants leave their homelands and move to Minnesota? Where in the state did they settle? What did they do, and how did they organize? How did they maintain their ethnicity? These are just a few of many deep questions addressed in this massive document making the subtitle, "A Survey of ... ... more

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