5th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company D

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)

• First Battle (Siege) of Corinth, Mississippi, 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 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