5th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 5th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 5th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry
caption=Michigan state flag
dates= August 28, 1861 to June 5, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Peninsular Campaign
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Chantilly
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of Cold Harbor
Siege of Petersburg
Appomattox Campaign
The 5th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 5th Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on August 28, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on July 5, 1865 at Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment mustered a total of 1586 men during its existence. [http://www.michiganinthewar.org/infantry/5thinf.htm Michigan in the Civil War WebsiteIt suffered 16 officers and 247 enlistedmen who were killed in action or motally wounded and 3 officer and 188 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 454 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf1.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]
Commanders
*Colonel Henry D. Terry [Michigan in the Civil War Website]
ee also
*List of Michigan Civil War Units
*Michigan in the American Civil War
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionmi.htm The Civil War Archive]
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