[1] Further description of the surrender at Murfreesboro can be found in the papers of William D. Hale, a member of the 3rd Minnesota.

[2] The regiment was formally exchanged on August 27, 1862, and moved home to Minnesota arriving at Fort Snelling on 4 September.

At the end of the brief campaign, the regiment returned to Fort Snelling to board riverboats south.

The Regiment remained there until joining in the Siege of Vicksburg until the surrender of the defenders on July 4, 1863.

The regiment then participated in the campaign to capture Little Rock, Arkansas, from August 13 to September 10, 1863, and remained in garrison there after the fall of the city until April 28, 1864.