Pat "Teaparty" Teeporten is a prolific writer who lives in the St. Croix Valley and writes in a variety of venues. I'm fond of Teaparty's personal blog
Les Enfants Terrible, which is often quite amusing and has been on my blogroll for some time now. He also writes for the East Central Minnesota Post Review and he has an excellent piece up there about the
1st Minnesota Regiment and its crucial role in the Battle of Gettysburg. It's a good story and an especially good history lesson. Here's the money paragraph:
Sure we talk funny, love hockey, fish all year, and drink “pop,” not soda. But it was also our farm boys, from a place only a state five years, that saved
the day on July 2, 1863. The war would drag on another two years, but Lee would
never be anywhere as close to victory as he was moments before his army was
stopped cold by the 1st Minnesota.
As they say, read the whole thing.
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