5th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

5th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 5th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry


caption=Flag of Minnesota
dates= March 15, 1862 to August 7, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=

The 5th Minnesota Regiment Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.

ervice

The 5th Minnesota was mustered into Federal service at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, between March 15 and April 30, 1862. The 5th Minnesota took part in the following battles and actions:

* Farmington, Miss., May 28, 1862 (Co. A)
* Redwood, Minn., Aug 18, 1862 (Co. B, Dakota Conflict)
* Fort Ridgely, Minn., Aug. 20-22, 1862 (Co.'s B & C, Dakota Conflict)
* Fort Abercrombie, Minn., Sept. 3-6, 1862 (Co. D, Dakota Conflict)
* Iuka, Miss., Sept. 19, 1862 (Co. A)
* Corinth, Miss., Oct. 4, 1862 (Co. A)
* Mississippi Springs, Miss., May 13, 1863 (5th Regiment from here on)
* Jackson, Miss., May 14, 1863
* Assault on Vicksburg, May 22, 1863
* Sartaria, Miss., June 4, 1863
* Mechanicsburg, Miss., June 6, 1863
* Richmond, La., June 14, 1863
* Canton, Miss., Oct. 16, 1863
* Brownsville, Miss., Oct. 18, 1863
* Barton's Station, Miss., Oct. 20, 1863
* Assault on Fort De Russy, La., March 14, 1864
* Henderson's Hill, La., March 21, 1864
* Grand Ecore, La., April 2, 1864
* Compti, La., April 3, 1864
* Pleasant Hill, La., April 9, 1864
* Cloutierville, La., April 23, 1864
* Cane River, La., April 24, 1864
* Moore's Plantation, La., May 3, 1864
* Bayou La Moure, La., May 6 and 7, 1864
* Bayou Roberts, La., May 7, 1864
* Mansura, La., May 16, 1864
* Bayou De Glaise, La., May 18 and 19, 1864
* Lake Chicot, Ark., June 6, 1864
* Tupelo, Miss., July 14, 1864
* Oxford, Miss., Aug. 21, 1864
* Abbeyville, Miss., Aug. 23, 1864
* Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15 and 16, 1864
* Fish River, Ala., March 24, 1865
* Capture of Spanish Fort, Ala., April 8, 1865
* Fort Blakely, Ala., April 9, 1865
* Garrison Duty at Montgomery, Selma, and Demopolis, Ala., until August, 1865 The regiment was mustered out on August 7, 1865.

Casualties

The 5th Minnesota Infantry suffered 4 officers and 86 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 4 officers and 175 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 269 fatalities. [ [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmninf1.htm Civil War Archive] ]

Colonels

*Colonel Rudolph von Borgesrode - April 30, 1862, to August 31, 1862.
*Colonel Lucius F. Hubbard - August 31, 1862 to September 6, 1865.

Other Noted Individuals

*John Ireland Chaplain and Archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota

References

cite book
last = Andrews
first = General C.C. ed.
title = Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars
publisher = Pioneer Press
date = 1891

Notes

External links

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmninf1.htm The Civil War Archive]
* [http://fifthminnesota.bravehost.com/ Fifth Minnesota Living History Group]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~timbode07/5thMinnesota/5th_Minnesota_Home.htm 5th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=--RqTX8I_eQC&dq=fifth+minnesota&as_brr=1 Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865, by Minnesota, Charles Eugene Flandrau]

ee also

List of Minnesota Civil War Units


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