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Event: Fort Ridgely
Date: June 8th-9th 2019
Location: Fort Ridgely, Fairfax, MN
Event Staff: Joe Beedle, Ryan Kelly
Contact: Joe Beedle
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Registration: Projected to open January 2019.
Registration fee: TBA
Impression(s):
Military: 5th Minnesota Vol INF, Company B
Civilian Contractors
Description:
Soldiers will experience the usual routine of garrison duty, men of company B were actively exercised in daily drill and instructed in everything that could increase their military efficiency, their daily hope being for an order that should relieve them from mere garrison service and direct them to join their regiment in active duty in the South. Company B, having rapidly reached a high efficiency in the manual of arms and infantry evolutions, especially in skirmish drill, was now daily and vigorously exercised in the artillery drill, under the able instruction of Ordnance Sergeant Jones, and by midsummer had several trained squads well qualified in all the details necessary to use the guns. While this work was undertaken more to promote the general efficiency of the company than in anticipation of its necessity or actual use at the fort, subsequent events proved that it was probably the most important element among all that prevented the capture of Fort Ridgely by the Sioux later that year.
Date: June 8th-9th 2019
Location: Fort Ridgely, Fairfax, MN
Event Staff: Joe Beedle, Ryan Kelly
Contact: Joe Beedle
Website
Facebook Page
Registration: Projected to open January 2019.
Registration fee: TBA
Impression(s):
Military: 5th Minnesota Vol INF, Company B
Civilian Contractors
Description:
Soldiers will experience the usual routine of garrison duty, men of company B were actively exercised in daily drill and instructed in everything that could increase their military efficiency, their daily hope being for an order that should relieve them from mere garrison service and direct them to join their regiment in active duty in the South. Company B, having rapidly reached a high efficiency in the manual of arms and infantry evolutions, especially in skirmish drill, was now daily and vigorously exercised in the artillery drill, under the able instruction of Ordnance Sergeant Jones, and by midsummer had several trained squads well qualified in all the details necessary to use the guns. While this work was undertaken more to promote the general efficiency of the company than in anticipation of its necessity or actual use at the fort, subsequent events proved that it was probably the most important element among all that prevented the capture of Fort Ridgely by the Sioux later that year.
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