- First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
- A dead Union soldier from the 3rd Army Corps represents the battle from earlier that day.
- A soldier takes up the flag of the Minnesota regiment after the color bearer was shot.
- Col. William Colville leading the charge moments before being twice wounded.
- The Alabama Brigade of the Confederate Army, lead by Gen. Cadmus Wilcox.
- Rocks and stream are known landmarks of the Plum Run rivulet.
- Interviews and photographs of veterans were used as reference for the painting.
- Of about 262 men ordered to charge, about three-quarters were killed or wounded.
- On the ridge behind the Minnesota volunteers is a Confederate regiment from Florida.
- Yellow sky indicates the time of the battle, about 7:00 p.m. on July 2, 1863.
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