Minnesota Spirit Quest - MnSQ: Army Private Joseph Frantz
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At the posted coordinates, you should look for the grave of Army Private Joseph Frantz, a Union infantry soldier attached the Company E of the 83rd Indiana Infantry. During the Civil War, on May 22, 1863 Frantz earned the Medal of Honor for “gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party” during the Siege of Vicksburg (Mississippi).
On May 22, 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant ordered an assault on the Confederate heights at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The plan called for a storming party of volunteers to build a bridge across a moat and plant scaling ladders against the enemy embankment in advance of the main attack. The volunteers knew the odds were against survival and the mission was called, in nineteenth-century vernacular, a "forlorn hope". Only single men were accepted as volunteers and even then, twice as many men as needed came forward and were turned away. The assault began in the early morning following a naval bombardment.
The Union soldiers came under enemy fire immediately and were pinned down in the ditch they were to cross. Despite repeated attacks, the men of the forlorn hope were unable to retreat until nightfall. Of the 150 men in the storming party, nearly half were killed. Seventy-nine of the survivors were awarded the Medal of Honor.
On the gravestone of Joseph, he passed away in the year 19__. Consider this AB.
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N44 27.(312 + AB)
W93 08.(431 + AB)