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Story of ax Emigrant. • 107
’ In bidding you farewell, I give you all my most hearty thanks. May
peace, prosperity and happiness ever be your reward.
’For me, the greatest honor,—greater far than I ever expected to
achieve,—is the fact of having so long commanded, and at last led home in
triumph and peace, the always dear and noble Third Minnesota Regiment.
’ H. Mattson,
4 Colonel Commanding Regiment.
•P. E. Folsom, Lieutenant and Adjutant.’"
During this war the Union army had mustered in
2,883,-000 men, 400,000 of whom had lost their lives. To this
army Minnesota contributed 25,052, or about one-seventh
of her entire population. Of this number 2,500 were killed or
died of sickness during the w^ar, and it is calculated that
5,000 died since the war on account of wounds and diseases
contracted during service. The Third regiment had, during
four years’ service, a total enrollment of 1,417, of which
number there were left only 432 men when we returned in
September, 1865. The war cost the Union about two
billion, seven hundred million dollars. The sacrifice of gold
and blood was not too great. Not only America, but the
whole human race has gained more through the victories of
our army than can be estimated in gold and blood. And the
Scandinavians of the West may justly feel proud of the part
they tool* in this struggle for liberty and human lights.
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