“Tis a task to write this letter,
Painful news have I to tell,
On the second day of battle,
Sergeant Philip Hamlin fell.”
-Mrs. S.D. Tandy
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Hellraisers Journal, Saturday October 20, 1906
Minnesota First Volunteers Seek to Honor Departed Civil War Hero
From this week’s Duluth Labor World:
HONORING A DEPARTED HERO
The First Minnesota of the Civil War times will live in the annals of heroism as long as history records the battle of Gettysburg.
Among the foremost to do their full duty and more than their duty to their beloved country on that memorable day was Col. Colville [Colvill], the regimental commander, who was literally shot “full of holes,” but was finally nursed back to a longer life of marked usefulness and the respect of all men.
The Colonel went to his well earned reward one year ago and his surviving regimental comrades are agitating for the erection of a suitable monument to his memory. No better or more fitting monument to the departed has ever been proposed. May success crown the loving effort of the surviving brave.
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[Photograph added.]
SOURCE
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-Oct 20, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/49590337
IMAGE
William J Colvill, ab 1862, Cpt later Col MN 1st
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Colvill
See also:
First Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
http://collections.mnhs.org/civilwar/index.php/10002892
FAMILY CONNECTION TO THE MINNESOTA FIRST
Sergeant Philip Rice Hamlin and Jacob Leslie Hamlin were my grandmother’s uncles. Her father was the baby brother of Philip and Jacob, both of whom died fighting as Union soldiers during the Civil War. Philip died fighting at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, and Jacob died on December 23, 1864, from wounds received during the Battle of Nashville.
Philip Rice Hamlin was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, on May 24, 1839. He was the son of Rice and Elizabeth (Tome) Hamlin. The family moved to Minnesota in 1855, after an arduous raft journey. The 15 year old helped his father set up and run their new farm. Five years later, when war was declared, he joined the men who formed Company F and was appointed a corporal.His brother, Jacob, enlisted on Aug 14, 1862, and served in Company G of the 7th Minnesota Infantry. Two years later, on Dec 23, 1864, he died at Nashville, TN of wounds received in battle…
SOURCE & IMAGE
Sergeant Philip Hamlin
http://www.1stminnesota.net/#/soldier/799
See also:
“In the Footsteps of Sergeant Hamlin, 1st Minnesota Infantry”
-by D. Scott Hartwig
https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/in-the-footsteps-of-sergeant-hamlin-1st-minnesota-infantry/
Philip Rice Hamlin and Jacob Leslie Hamlin Papers, 1861 – 1865.
https://mplus.mnpals.net/vufind/Record/001715502/Holdings
1SGT Phillip Rice Hamlin
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14292149
Jacob L Hamlin
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3189473
Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg
-by Brian Leehan
Minnesota Historical Society Press, Jul 1, 2004
(Search with: Hamlin)
https://books.google.com/books?id=xCfi6KOO1xgC
First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
http://www.mnopedia.org/group/first-minnesota-volunteer-infantry-regiment
Seventh Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
http://www.mnopedia.org/group/seventh-minnesota-volunteer-infantry-regiment
William Colvill, Minnesota Civil War Hero
No More Gallant Deed
Minnesota Remembers: Battle of Gettysburg – 1863
Minnesota Remembers: The Battle of Nashville – 1864
Battle Hymn Of The Republic – Odetta