5th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
HISTORICAL NOTES:The 5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment was mustered into Federal service at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, between March 15 and April 30, 1862. The Regiment was split with B Company posted to Fort Ridgely, C Company to Fort Ripley, D Company to Fort Abercrombie, with the remainder heading off to fight the south. B Co. was the escort that took the women, children and elderly to Fort Snelling from the Yellow Medicine Lower Sioux Agency in November 1862. Companies B, C, and D were relieved and sent south in November- December that year. It mustered out on September 6, 1865 after a duty at Montgomery, Selma and Demopolis, Alabama.
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.
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SERVICE:• Farmington, Mississippi, May 28, 1862 (Companies A, E-K)
• Battle of Redwood Ferry, Aug 18, 1862 (Company B, Dakota Conflict)
• Battle of Fort Ridgely, August 20–22, 1862 (Companies B & C, Dakota Conflict)
• Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory, September 3–6, 1862 (Company D, Dakota Conflict)
• Iuka, Mississippi, September 19, 1862 (Companies A, E-K present, but in reserve)
• Corinth, Mississippi, October 4, 1862 (Companies A, E-K)
• Mississippi Springs, Mississippi, May 13, 1863 (5th Regiment from here on)
• Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863
• Assault on Vicksburg, May 22, 1863
• Satartia, Mississippi, June 4, 1863
• Mechanicsburg, Mississippi, June 6, 1863
• Richmond, Louisiana, June 14, 1863
• Canton, Mississippi, October 16, 1863
• Brownsville, Mississippi, October 18, 1863
• Barton's Station, Mississippi, October 20, 1863
• Assault on Fort De Russy, Louisiana, March 14, 1864
• Henderson's Hill, Louisiana, March 21, 1864
• Grand Ecore, Louisiana, April 2, 1864
• Campti, Louisiana, April 3, 1864
• Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, April 9, 1864
• Cloutierville, Louisiana, April 23, 1864
• Cane River, Louisiana, April 24, 1864
• Moore's Plantation, Louisiana, May 3, 1864
• Bayou La Moure, Louisiana, May 6 and 7, 1864
• Bayou Roberts, Louisiana, May 7, 1864
• Mansura, Louisiana, May 16, 1864
• Bayou De Glaise, Louisiana, May 18 and 19, 1864
• Lake Chicot, Arkansas, June 6, 1864
• Tupelo, Mississippi, July 14, 1864 (non-veterans only; veterans on furlough June 17-August 17, 1864)
• Oxford, Mississippi, August 21, 1864
• Abbeville, Mississippi, August 23, 1864
• Nashville, Tennessee, December 15 and 16, 1864
• Fish River, Alabama, March 24, 1865
• Capture of Spanish Fort, Alabama, April 8, 1865
• Fort Blakely, Alabama, April 9, 1865
• Garrison Duty at Montgomery, Selma, and Demopolis, Alabama, until August, 1865
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REFERENCES:Dyer, Frederick H. - A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion