2nd Minnesota

[Front Side of Monument]:

The Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteer Infantry.

Occupied this position Sunday September 20th, 1863, from 2:30 P.M., to 7:30 P.M., successfully maintaining it against repeated assaults by the enemy, and withdrawing only after the attempt to take it ...

2nd Minnesota

[Front/East Side of Monument]:

Erected

By

The State Of

Minnesota

1893

[Right/North Side of Monument]:

The Second Minnesota

Regiment of Veteran Volunteer

Infantry, deployed as skirmishers,

(Covering Van DerVeer's Brigade) attacked

and captured the line of breastworks

at the foot ...