Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses KEGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. FIFTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY. DETROBRIAND'S BRIGADE — BIRNEY'S DIVISION — THIRD CORPS. (1) COL. HENRY D. TERRY: BRIG.-GEN. (2) COL. SAMUEL E. BEACH. (3) COL. JOHN PULFORD ; BVT. BRIG. GEN. 263 killed = 13.9 per cent, Total of killed and wounded I 018 • captured and missing, 173 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included) 68. BATTLES. K. &M.W. BATTLES. K.&M.W. 11 Spotsylvania, Va North Anna, Va , . 3 Totopotomoy, Va 2 Cold Harbor, Va i Petersburg, Va. (assault, 1864) 31 Strawberry Plains, Va i Boydton Road, Va 18 Hatcher's Run, Va 2 Fall of Petersburg, Va 2 Sailor's Creek, Va 3 Pohick Church, Va., Jan. 9, 1862 i Williamsburg, Va 44 Fair Oaks, Va 43 Glendale, Va 7 Malvern Hill, Va i Manassas, Va i Fredericksburg, Va 20 Chancellorsville, Va 11 Gettysburg, Pa 30 Mine Run, Va 4 Wilderness, Va 27 Present, also, at Yorktown; Chantilly; Wapping Heights; Auburn; Kelly's Ford; Deep Bottom; Farm-ville ; Appomattox. NOTES. —The Fifth sustained the heaviest loss in battle of any Michigan regiment. Its first experience in battle was at Williamsburg, where the three Michigan regiments in Berry's Brigade won merited honors, the loss of the Fifth in that battle amounting to 29 killed, and 115 wounded. It was also hotly engaged at Fair Oaks, where it lost 31 killed, 105 wounded, and 19 missing, out of less than 330 engaged. The regiment entered the Seven Days Battle with only 216 men, of whom 59 were killed, or wounded. Major John D. Fairbanks, com manding the regiment, was killed at Glendale. At Fredericksburg the commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel John Gilluly, was killed while leading a charge, the casualties in the regiment aggregating 10 killed, and 73 wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward T. Sherlock succeeded to the command, and was killed in the next battle — at Chancellorsville. At Gettysburg—in Birney's Division — it lost 19 killed, 86 wounded, and 4 miss ing. It marched with the Second Corps on the campaign of May, 1864, numbering 365 men, as officially reported; its casualties a few days later at the Wilderness, were 16 killed, 79 wounded, and 2 missing; total, 97. Of the small number remaining, 58 fell the next week at Spotsylvania. In June, 1864, the regiment received 325 men from the Third Michigan, which, with subsequent accessions, enabled it to preserve its organ ization until the end of the war. _10989
