{"id":3439,"date":"2010-12-10T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2010-12-10T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:37:15","slug":"isaac-l-taylor-at-gettysburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/12\/10\/isaac-l-taylor-at-gettysburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac L. Taylor at Gettysburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On July 2, 1863 at 5:40AM Isaac Taylor recorded in his diary that his regiment, the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, had arrived at Gettysburg. \u201cOrder from Gen. [John] Gibbon read to us in which he says this is to be the great battle of the war & that any soldier leaving ranks without leave will be instantly put to death,\u201d as Taylor noted<\/a>. By the end of the day 215 of the 262 soldiers in the regiment had been killed or wounded. While Isaac died, his brother, Patrick Henry Taylor, made it out of the battle without injury. After Patrick buried his brother, he added the final entry to the diary – Isaac had been \u201ckilled by a shell about sunset\u201d and his grave was located \u201c[about] a mile South of Gettysburg.\u201d Four other Taylor brothers also served in other Union regiments during the Civil War. While Jonathan (Second Minnesota Battery of Light Artillery), Danford (Twelfth Illinois Cavalry), and Samuel (102nd Illinois Infantry) survived the war, Judson was in Company K of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry when he died at Vicksburg on December 1, 1864. Isaac’s Taylor’s diary was published in the Minnesota History Magazine<\/em> in 4 sections. You can download them as a PDF file: Part 1<\/a> ; Part 2<\/a> ; Part 3<\/a> ; Part 4<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0Several historians have studied the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, including John Quinn Imholte\u2019s The First Volunteers; History of the First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment, 1861-1865<\/em> (1963), \u00a0Richard Moe’s Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers<\/em> (1993), and\u00a0Brian Leehan’s Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg<\/a><\/em> (2004). You can read another account of the regiment’s actions in\u00a0James A. Wright’s No More Gallant a Deed: a Civil War Memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers<\/em><\/a> (2001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On July 2, 1863 at 5:40AM Isaac Taylor recorded in his diary that his regiment, the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, had arrived at Gettysburg. \u201cOrder from Gen. [John] Gibbon read to us in which he says this is to be the great battle of the war & that any soldier leaving ranks without leave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,172],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-letters-diaries","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}