5th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

5th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
Flag of Minnesota
Active	March 15, 1862 to August 7, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry

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.

Service

On October 23, 1861, Assistant Secretary of War Thomas A. Scott sent correspondence to Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey, authorizing him to raise a 5th regiment of infantry in the state. 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, Mississippi, May 28, 1862 (Companies A,E-K)
Redwood, Minnesota, Aug 18, 1862 (Company B, Dakota Conflict)
Fort Ridgely, Minnesota, August 20-22, 1862 (Companiess B & C, Dakota Conflict)
Fort Abercrombie, Minnesota, September 3-6, 1862 (Company D, Dakota Conflict)
Iuka, Mississippi, September 19, 1862 (Companies A,E-K)
Siege of Corinth, May 26-30, 1862.
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

The regiment was mustered out on September 6, 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.^[1]

Colonels

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

Other noted individuals

Thomas P. Gere, first lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient
John Ireland Chaplain and Archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota

References

Andrews, C. C., ed. (1891). Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865. St. Paul, Minn: Printed for the state by the Pioneer Press Co.

Notes

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