On one side were a 14-year-old from Garden City, an 18-year-old from Mankato, a 21-year-old from Henderson, and others from Mankato, Shelbyville, Swan Lake and and Mapleton.
There were no more than 16 Union soldiers in all, part of a wagon train near Nolensville, Tenn., on a February day in 1863. According to the Medal of Honor citations awarded to eight of those soldiers, they would soon find themselves outnumbered eight to one by Confederate soldiers on horseback.
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