“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.
