The Monuments and Memorials of the Gettysburg Campaign
1st Minnesota Infantry (Memorial Urn)
Dedicated: 1867.
Location: National Cemetery. Memorial located in front of Minnesota section of the cemetery.
Description: Urn located in the National Cemetery, Minnesota plot. Placed in 1867, making it one of the battlefield’s oldest monuments. Inscription reads, “All time is the millennium of their glory.” The state of Minnesota erected this white marble vase-on-stand at the head of its burial section. It is a stepped shaft topped with a sculpted, reverse fluted marble urn that is set on a 2.10 foot square base. The overall height is 5.2 foot. Inscriptions on the square stand include words from the principal addresses during the cemetery’s 1863 dedication.
