Historic Minnesota home also serves as a Civil War museum

Name: Historic Minnesota home also serves as a Civil War museum
Uploaded: 2026-09-09T22:18:00-0500
Duration: 3 min 2 s
Description: A Civil War museum has quite a backstory. In this week’s Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen shows us how a Battle Lake man turned his great-grandfather’s war mementos into a history lesson.

A Civil War museum has quite a backstory. In this week’s Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen shows us how a Battle Lake man turned his great-grandfather’s war mementos into a history lesson.