The Fifth Infantry was organized at Fort Wayne, Detroit, and was mustered into service Aug. 28, 1861, with an enrollment of 900 officers and men. The several companies composing the regiment were locally desig­nated as follows: “Sherlock Guard,” of Detroit; “Mt. Clemens Rifle Guard” of Mt. Clemens; “East Saginaw Volunteers,” of East Saginaw; “Ingersoll Rifles,” of Owosso; “Governor’s Guard,” of Detroit; “Saginaw City Light Infantry,” of Saginaw City; “Livingston Volunteers,” of Brighton; “Wash­ington Guard,” of St. Clair; “Pontiac Volunteers,” of Pontiac, and “Huron Rangers,” of Port Huron.

The field, staff and line officers at organization were as follows:

Colonel, Henry D. Terry, Detroit. Lieutenant Colonel, Samuel E. Beach, Pontiac. Major, John D. Fairbanks, Detroit. Surgeon, Moses Gunn, Detroit. Assistant Surgeon, Robert A. Everett, Ann Arbor. Adju­tant, William N. Ladue, Detroit. Quartermaster, Hudson B. Blackman, Howell. Chaplain, D. C. Jacokes, Pontiac.

1. Captain, Edwin T. Sherlock, Detroit. First Lieutenant, John Pulford, Detroit. Second Lieutenant, John W. O’Callahan, Detroit.
2. Captain, Judson S. Farrar, Mt. Clemens. First Lieutenant, Edgar H. Shook, Mt. Clemens. Second Lieutenant, Henry C. Edgerly, Mt. Cle­mens.
3. Captain, Henry W. Trowbridge, Saginaw. First Lieutenant, Will­iam O. Donnell, Saginaw. Second Lieutenant, Charles H. Hutchins, Detroit.
4. Captain, Joseph A. Eagle, Detroit. First Lieutenant, Salmon S. Mathews, Pontiac. Second Lieutenant, Sylvester D. Cowles, Pontiac.
5. Captain, Charles S. Traverse, Port Huron. First Lieutenant, Au­gustus Zanier, Port Huron. Second Lieutenant, Henry F. Decker, Port Huron.
6. Captain, Heber Le Favour, Detroit. First Lieutenant, William N. Ladue, Detroit. Second Lieutenant, William T. Johnson, Detroit.
7. Captain, George W. Wilson, St. Clair. First Lieutenant, Willis B. Pomeroy, St. Clair. Second Lieutenant, Frederick S. Steele, St. Clair.
8. Captain, Louis B. Quackenbush, Owosso. First Lieutenant, Will­iam Wakenshaw, Owosso. Second Lieutenant, William K. Tillotson, Owosso.
9. Captain, John Gilluly, Brighton. First Lieutenant, Hudson B. Blackman, Howell. Second Lieutenant, Charles H. Denison, Brighton.
11. Captain, Henry Miller, Saginaw. First Lieutenant, Alexander Alberti, East Saginaw. Second Lieutenant, Hugo Wesener, Saginaw.

The regiment left its rendezvous the nth day of September, 1861, to join the army of the Potomac.

During the winter of 1861-2 it was at Alexandria, Va., and in March, 1862, was assigned to Berry’s Brigade, Kearney’s Division, and took part in the Peninsular Campaign under General McClellan.

The Fifth was at the siege of Yorktown, and participated in the battle of Williamsburg, May 5, where it displayed unusual gallantry, and testified by its losses the bravery and fortitude of its officers and men. The regi-

ment charged the enemy’s works and carried them with the bayonet, but in doing so received the murderous fire of the Confederates and from a total of 500 composing the regiment, lost 34 killed and 119 wounded.

For gallantry in this action the Fifth received congratulatory orders from General Berry, commanding Brigade, General Phil. Kearny, command­ing Division, and General McClellan commended the regiment highly to the Secretary of War.

Before the month of May closed it was destined to meet with severe loss in the desperate battle of Fair Oaks. It went into action on May 31 300 strong, and lost 30 killed, 120 wounded and 5 missing. This made a total loss for the month of May of 308.

It was engaged on the Chickahominy June 25 at Peach Orchard on the 29th and at Malvern Hill July 1. In these successive battles the regiment bore a prominent part and its losses were heavy.

The field officers had suffered so severely in killed and wounded that the regiment during July was in command of Captain Farrar. A large num­ber of line officers were killed or wounded.

The regiment returned from the Peninsular Campaign to serve in the campaign under General Pope, and took part in the engagements at Man­assas, Groveton and Chantilly.

In December, 1862, the Fifth took part in the disastrous battle of Fred­ericksburg, where its losses in killed and wounded were 100, and Lieut. Colonel Gilluly, commanding the regiment, was among the killed. During the months of December, 1862, and January, 1863, the regiment crossed and recrossed the Rappahannock River and participated in many marches and did a great amount of fatigue duty.

In May it took part in the battles of the Cedars and Chancellorsville, where it fought with its accustomed gallantry, and in these engagements lost more than 50 killed and wounded. At Chancellorsville, Lieut. Colonel Sherlock, commanding the regiment, was killed. Major Pulford was com­missioned Lieut. Colonel May 2, 1863, and under his command the regiment made a series of forced marches and arrived at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, at 4 p. m., where it went into action immediately about a mile beyond Emmetts- burg Pike, and in one hour lost 105 men killed or wounded, about one-half of the number in the regiment. The loss of officers was especially severe. The Fifth followed the retreating enemy after the battle of Gettysburg to Williamsburg, and after numerous marches was placed on transports at Alexandria to sail for New York to quell the riots caused by the draft. In September it again joined its corps and on the 7th of November, 1863, crossed the Rappahannock at Kelly’s Ford.

On the 27th it was engaged at Locust Grove, losing several killed and wounded and on the 29th was at Mine Run.

The Fifth went into winter quarters at Brandy Station where it re­mained until December when it re-enlisted and returned to Michigan on veteran furlough. Assembling again at Detroit with a large number of re­cruits it returned to its former camp at Brandy Station, where it arrived February 14, 1864.

The following May it entered upon the Wilderness Campaign under command of Colonel Pulford. The Fifth marched by the way of Chan­cellorsville, and was soon engaged in the death grapple in the Wilderness, where it sustained severe losses in killed and wounded. Colonel Pulford and Major Mathews were wounded, and the regiment passed to the command of Captain Wakenshaw and Captain Shook, who in turn were wounded, and the regiment was then in command of a Lieutenant. In making a charge

upon the enemy’s works Sergeant Kemp of Company F, captured the flag of a Virginia regiment. The regiment was constantly under fire, and its numbers had been greatly depleted by losses, and as the Third Michigan Infantry had been depleted in like manner the two regiments at this date were temporarily, and afterward permanently, consolidated.

On the 12th of May the regiment made a charge at Spottsylvania, and two stands of Confederate colors were captured. It was engaged at the North Anna 011 the 23d, and the next day crossed the river, where it drove the enemy from a strong position, and then recrossed and marched to the Pamunky River. The regiment was constantly changing its positions, marching by night and fighting or constructing works during the day, mak­ing the campaign one of unusual hardships. The incessant marching and fighting told heavily upon the command. Scarcely for an hour out of range of the enemy and always alert for attack or defense, the trying ordeal at times almost passed beyond the limit of endurance.

The Fifth reached Cold Harbor June 5 and after fatiguing marches and hard fighting crossed the James River and arrived before Petersburg the 15th. From this date until the fall of Petersburg, the following April, the regiment was usually in the advanced line of works or participated in the sharp engagements at Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run, and the num­erous charges made upon the enemy’s stronghold.

It was scarcely ever out of range of the enemy’s guns for the nine months it was 011 duty before Petersburg, and when that city fell April 3, 1865, the Fifth was one of the first regiments to plant its colors on the Confederate breast works.

After the capture of Petersburg, the Fifth followed the retreating enemy and was heavily engaged at Sailor’s Creek, and was on the firing line at Appomattox Court House the morning that General Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to General Grant.

On May 1st the regiment started for Washington where it participated in the grand review of the Army of the Potomac on the 23d.

June 10th the regiment started for Louisville, Ky., where it crossed the river to Jeffersonville, Ind., and was there mustered out of service.

It arrived at Detroit the 8th and was paid and disbanded July 17, 1865.

The regiment, while in service, participated in battles and skirmishes at Pohick Church, Va., January 9, 1862; siege “of Yorktown, Va., April 4 to May 4, 1862; Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862; Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862; Peach Orchard, Va., June 29, 1862; Glendale, Va., June 30, 1862; Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862; Bull Run 2d, Va., August 28, 1862; Grove- town, Va., August 29, 1862; Chantilly, Va., September 1, 1862; Fredericks­burg, Va., December 13, 1862; The Cedars, Va., May 2, 1863; Chancellors- ville, Va., May 3, 1863; Gettysburg, Pa., July 2 and 3, 1863; Wapping Heights, Va., July 23, 1863; Auburn Heights, Va., October 1, 1863; Kelly’s Ford, Va., November 26, 1863; Locust Grove, Va., November 27, 1863; Mine Run, Va., November 29, 1863; Wilderness, Va., May 5, 6 and 7, 1864; Todd’s Tavern, Va., May 8, 1864; Po River, Va., May 8, 1864; Spottsyl­vania, Va., May 12, 1864; North Anna, Va., May 23, 1864; Tolopotomy, Va., May 30, 1864; Cold Harbor, Va., June 2, 1864; Petersburg, Va., June 16 and 22, 1864; Deep Bottom, Va., July 27 and 28, 1864; Strawberry Plains, August 15 and 16, 1864; Poplar Spring Church, September 30, 1864; Boyd­ton Road, Va., October 27, 1864; Hatcher’s Run, Va., March 25, 1865; Boydton Road, Va., April 2, 1865; Capture of Petersburg, Va., April 3, 1865;

Sailor’s Creek, Va., April 6, 1865; New Store, Va., April 8, 1865; Appomat­tox Court House, Va., April 9, 1865; siege of Petersburg, Va., from June 17, 1864, to April 3, 1865.