Welcome to Fifth Minnesota Fiction!

This is a site dedicated to the essence of what the Fifth Minnesota Living History Group is all about--telling a good story. In the case of the Fifth, we strive to tell the stories of history--everyday lives caught up in the turmoils of strife and change. Our purpose, is to give room for some of those stories to grow, and find an end for themselves. The process of good Living History is much the same as that used to write a story, the difference is that with the written word it is the reader that acts it out in their head. With Living History, the participants take those great narratives and give them life themselves in action and word.

Sometimes, we of the Fifth sit about and think about what it was like for the people we portray; how they coped with those issues that we often touch on at an event, but never quite get to live out. I know I have always wondered what those first days were like for those companies of the 5th that had initially been left behind in Minnesota, upon rejoining their regiment in the south. Were they accepted? Did people question their skills, and ability to handle the pressures of battle? This is what spawned the idea for my first short story about the Fifth Minnesota; and this site.

So, this is a site where those stories we begin, go on. New offerings will be posted as they are completed, and authors are welcome to submit their works of similar vein. I hope you will enjoy these stories.

P.S. : For those that know me well, there is no vanity in this endeavor--Corporal Dills MADE ME publish these stories to the web. So there.