PREFACE [to the 2000 edition]
When Judson W. Bishop's book was published in August 1890, he stated in the prospectus that it was written and printed for and by the request of the surviving members of the Second Minnesota Regiment.

A METTLE OF HONOR
When the men of Company H awoke in the cold and gray Sunday morning of February 15, 1863, they found themselves camped on the farm of Colonel Battle of the Twentieth Confederate Tennessee, the regiment they had faced in the fight across the fence earlier at Mill Springs up in Kentucky.