5th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 5th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service
The regiment, organized in May 1861, was mustered in at Portland, Maine on 24 June 1861 for three years' service. 193 original members were mustered out on 27 July 1864, while the reenlisted veterans and later recruits were transferred first into a battalion with the remaining members of the 6th Maine Infantry, and afterward was combined with those of the 7th Maine Infantry to form the 1st Maine Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Engagements

 * First Bull Run
 * Peninsular Campaign
 * West Point
 * Gaines Mill
 * Goldings Farm
 * Malvern Hill
 * Crampton's Gap (Antietam Campaign)
 * Antietam
 * Fredericksburg
 * Chancellorsville
 * Gettysburg
 * Funkstown, MD
 * Rappahannock Station (Bristoe Campaign)
 * Locust Grove (Mine Run Campaign)
 * Wilderness
 * Spotsylvania
 * North Anna
 * Cold Harbor

Casualties
107 men were killed in action or died of wounds, while another 77 died of disease. Another reference only has 137 men dying or being killed in battle (though same volume, in appendix, also claims 143 for casualty count)

Notes and references

 * Hodsdon, John L. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year 1864 and 1865. 1866, Stevens & Sayward, Augusta, ME