FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY Up to battle! Up to battle! All we love is saved or lost. ” The 5th was organized at Fort Wayne, composed of the companies named below recruited mainly at the points designated: Sherlock Guard, Detroit. Mt. Clemens rifle Guard, Mt. Clemens. East Saginaw Volunteers, East Saginaw. Ingersoll Rifles, Owosso. Governor’s Guard, [...]
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C. Captain, Henry W. Trowbridge, Saginaw. First Lieutenant, William O. Donnell Saginaw. Second Lieutenant, Charles H. Hutchins, Detroit. D. Captain, Joseph A. Eagle, Detroit. First Lieutenant, Salmon S. Mathews, Pontiac. Second Lieutenant, Sylvester D. Cowles, Pontiac. E. Captain, Charles S. Traverse, Port Huron. First Lieutenant, Augustus Zanier Port Huron. Second Lieutenant, Henry F. Decker, Port [...]
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Hon. Henry T. Backus addressed the regiment, who was replied to by Colonel H. D. Terry. This flag was carried through the battles of the regiment. Under it some eight or ten color-bearers and guards were killed while defending it. On the return of the regiment to the State it was placed in possession of [...]
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We were soon met by the chief of General Hemtzelman’s staff, who said: ‘The General says you must hurry on; you may be too late. ‘ The order double-quick was at once given, and on the regiment pressed until the work was taken. ” Colonel Terry, in a report also says of his regiment at [...]
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“In the rifle-pits in front of the 5th Michigan, sixtythree dead rebels were found, every one of them killed by the bayonet. ” The following letter of General Berry, on Michigan troops and Michigan, was written following Williamsburg to a friend in Washington: To all my sick and wounded in hospital you chance to visit [...]
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The following letter is from General Phillip Kearny: Headquarters Third Division, Heintzelman’s Corps, May 10th, 1862. His Excellency, Austin Blair, Governor of Michigan: Sir: _It gives me great pleasure to address you in order to bring to your immediate notice the noble and brave manner with which the troops of your State in my division [...]
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Their bearing was worthy of veterans. Hooker’s division for hours gallantly withstood the attack of greatly superior numbers, with heavy loss. Kearny’s arrived in time to restore the fortune of the day, and came most gallantly into action. I shall probably have occasion to call attention to’ other commands, and do not wish to do [...]
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From a report of Captain J. S. Farrar, commanding regiment, dated on July 4th at Harrison’s Landing: “I have the honor to report for the consideration of the general commanding the brigade, the part which this regiment sustained in the movement commencing on Sunday morning, June 29th, up to its arrival at this point. “The [...]
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The artillery fire kept increasing and musketry mingled with it. The action soon became general, and the regiment again changed position, and was held as a. reserve on the left of the Charles City road, and moving a short distance up the road, was deployed across it, and into the woods, to stop fugitives from [...]
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For two or three hours the regiment lay under a hot fire of shot and shell from the enemy’s guns, sustaining a slight loss in wounded, amongst the number Captain Pulford of Co. C, a brave and most efficient officer, who was mortally wounded by a round shot. At dark the regiment was sent on [...]
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