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5th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry |
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Organized at Fort Snelling, Minn., March 15 to April 30, 1862. Company "D"
moved to Fort Abercrombie, D. T., March 15-29, and garrison duty there (with a
detachment at Georgetown till August 20) till November, 1862. Action at Fort
Abercrombie June 20. Defense of Fort Abercrombie September 3-26. Actions with
Sioux Indians September 3-6. Company ordered to join Regiment and joined at
Germantown, Tenn., February 14, 1863. Company "C" moved to Fort Ripley March,
1862. and garrison duty there till November, 1862. Rejoined Regiment near
Oxford, Miss., December 12, 1862. (Part of Company under Lieut. T. J. Sheban,
marched to Fort Ridgly June 19-28, 1862.) Company "B" moved to Fort Ridgly March
22-25, 1862, and garrison duty there till November, 1862. Companies "B" and "C"
march to Sioux Agency on Yellow Medicine River June 30-July 2, to preserve order
during annuity payment to Indians. Sioux outbreak August, 1862. Battle of
Redwood August 18 (Co. "B"). Defence of Fort Ridgly August 20-22 (Cos. "B" and
"C"). (A detachment of Co. "C" moved to Fort Ripley September 18.) Company "B"
marched for Fort Snelling November 9 as escort to captured Indians. Rejoined
Regiment near Oxford, Miss., December 12, 1862. Regiment moved to Mississippi
May 10-24, 1862. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Mississippi, to
November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 8th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps (Old),
Dept. of thc Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 8th Division, 16th Army
Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to April, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th
Army Corps. to December, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to
November, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division (Detachment), Army of the Tennessee,
Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army
Corps, Military Division West Mississippi, to September, 1865.
SERVICE: Siege of Corinth, Miss., May 26-30, 1862.
Action near Corinth May 28. Occupation of Corinth May 30 and pursuit to
Booneville May 31-June 12. At Camp Clear Creek till July 3. Moved to Rienzi July
3, thence to Tuscumbia, Ala., August 18-22, and duty there till September 13.
Moved to Clear Creek September 13-14, thence to Iuka, Miss., September 16.
Skirmish at Iuka September 16. Battle of Iuka September 19. Battle of Corinth
October 3-4. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Grant's Central Mississippi
Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863. At Jackson, Tenn., till March 12,
1863. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence to Duckport, La., March 12-April 1.
Demonstration on Haines and Drumgould's Bluffs April 29-May 2. Movement to join
army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., via Richmond and Grand Gulf May 2-14.
Mississippi Springs May 13. Jackson May 14. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4.
Expedition to Mechanicsburg and Satartia June 2-8. Satartia June 4. Expedition
from Young's Point to Richmond, La., June 14-16. Richmond, La., June 15. Advance
toward Jackson July 5. Guard duty at Black River Bridge till July 22. At Bear
Creek till October. Expedition to Canton October 14-20. Bogue Chitto Creek
October 17. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., November 14-20, thence to LaGrange, Tenn.,
and guard Memphis & Charleston Railroad and scouting after Forest till January
26, 1864. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., January 26-February 3. Meridian Campaign
February 3-March 2. At Black River Bridge till February 23. March to Canton and
return to Vicksburg February 23-March 7. Regiment veteranize February 12, 1864.
Red River Campaign March 10-May 22. Fort DeRussy March 14. Occupation of
Alexandria March 16. Henderson's Hill March 21. Grand Ecore April 2. Campti
April 3. Battle of Pleasant Hill April 9. About Cloutlersville, Cane River,
April 22-24. At Alexandria April 26-May 13. Moore's Plantation May 3. Bayou
LaMourie May 6-7. Bayou Roberts May 7. Retreat to Morganza May 13-20. Mansura
May 16. Yellow Bayou May 18. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., May 22-24, thence to
Memphis, Tenn., June 4-10. Action at Old River Lake June 6. Defeat of Marmaduke.
Veterans on furlough June 17-August 17. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo July 5-21
(Non-Veterans). Camargo's Cross Roads July 13. Harrisburg, near Tupelo, July
14-15. Tishamingo or Old Town Creek July 15. Smith's Expedition to Oxford,
Miss., August 1-30. Abbeville August 23. Mower's Expedition to Brownsville,
Ark., September 2-10. March through Arkansas and Missouri in pursuit of Price
September 17-November 15. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 24-30. Battle of
Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.
Moved to Eastport, Miss., and duty there till February, 1865. Moved to New
Orleans, La., February 6-22. Campaign against Mobile, Ala., and its Defences
March 7-April 12. Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8.
Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. Occupation of Mobile April 12.
March to Montgomery April 13-25. Duty at Montgomery, Selma and Demopolis, Ala.,
till August. Mustered out September 6, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 86 Enlisted men killed and mortally
wounded and 4 Officers and 175 Enlisted men by disease. Total 269.
James V. Acker, Pres.