Not all of it was because of redeployment after the war. At the start of the war MN had only been a state a few years but were the first to volunteer troops (th

Not all of it was because of redeployment after the war. At the start of the war MN had only been a state a few years but were the first to volunteer troops (the governor happened to be in dc). They distinguished themselves in battle, including stopping the Gettysburg charge, but then some had to quit the war early to go back to MN to put down a Lakota uprising - which was more just the Lakota attacking farmers because they knew no troops were available. http://exploringoffthebeatenpath.com/Battlefields/DakotaWar/index.html http://exploringoffthebeatenpath.com/Battlefields/DakotaWar/...