Emil Munch Civil War papers. 1861-1865.

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Emil Munch Civil War papers. 1861-1865.

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Correspondence, orders, and other papers pertaining to Munch's Civil War service, including captain of the First Minnesota Battery of Artillery in Tennessee and Mississippi (1862); his retirement from field service because of wounds and his later appointment as brigadier general of the Fifth Brigade, Minnesota State Militia (1863); his responsibility for the fortification of Minnesota frontier settlements (1863) after the U.S. Dakota War (1862); his service as captain in the Veteran Reserve Corps (Invalid Corps) stationed at Camp Douglas, Illinois (1863-1865); and his appointment (1865) as major of the First Minnesota Volunteer Heavy Artillery.

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Munch, Emil, 1832-1887.

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Emil Munch was born in Halberstadt, Prussia on December 12, 1832. He immigrated to the United States in 1849, settled in Taylors Falls, Minnesota in 1852, and then moved to Chengwatana in Pine County in 1857. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives (1860-1861), but enlisted in the First Minnesota Artillery Battery on October 16, 1861 and was chosen captain the following month. As a result of wounds received at the battle of Shiloh, and subsequent exposure whi...