On February 15, 1863, Captain Burger, who was only 14 at the time, and 15 others, heroically defended a wagon train against the attack of 125 Confederate cavalrymen.
ST PAUL, Minn. — 105 years after his death, a Minnesota Civil War veteran finally received military honors at his burial site Saturday in St. Paul. Captain Joseph Burger, who is the grandfather of former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, enlisted as a soldier in the Civil War at the age of 13, convincing the recruiter that he was 18…