The Regiment lost 12 officers and 126 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 85 enlisted men to disease, a total of 223. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, N.J. |
August 22, 1861 |
Mustered in |
August 29 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. for duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. attached to Casey's Provisional Division, Army of the Potomac |
October |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, Hooker's Division, Army of the Potomac |
November 3-11 |
Expedition to Lower Maryland |
November |
At Meridian Hill |
December |
Near Budd's Ferry, Md. |
March 1862 |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 10 |
Seizure of Cockpit Point |
April 5-8 |
Moved to the Virginia Peninsula |
April 10-May 5 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines |
June |
Duty near Seven Pines |
June 25-JuIy 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 25 |
Action at Oak Grove, near Seven Pines |
June 29 |
Savage Station |
June 30 |
Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 15-26 |
Movement to Centreville |
August 26-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 27 |
Action at Bristoe Station or Kettle Run |
August 29 |
Battles of Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run |
September 1 |
Chantilly |
September-October |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, near Alexandria |
November 1-28 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
November 28-December 11 |
Duty at Falmouth |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
January-April 1863 |
At Falmouth |
January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February 5-7 |
Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Col. William J. Sewell, who was wounded on July 2nd. Sewell was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Chancellorsville in May two months before Gettysburg, and went on to become a State and U.S. Senator. Capt. Henry H. Woolsey took command for the rest of the battle even though he was slightly wounded on July 2nd.
The 5th brought 221 men to the field and lost 13 killed, 65 wounded and 16 missing.
From the monument: "The regiment first held the skirmish line 400 yards to the front and left of this spot, and afterwards took position in the line of battle here." |
July 5-24 |
Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap |
July 23 |
Wapping Heights, Manassas Gap, Va. |
August-September |
Duty near Warrenton |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 15 |
McLean's Ford |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Kelly's Ford |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 |
Payne's Farm |
December |
Duty near Brandy Station |
February 5-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
March |
Atached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps |
May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient "Bloody Angle," |
May 19 |
Harris Farm, Fredericksburg Road |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 23-24 |
Ox Ford |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begns |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
June 24 |
In trenches before Petersburg |
July 12-26 |
In Reserve Camp |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration north of the James |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration north of the James |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
September 7 |
Non-Veterans mustered out at Trenton, N.J. |
September 10 |
Fort Sedgwick |
September 10 to October 1 |
Duty in trenches before Petersburg in lines from Fort Morton to Fort Alexander Hays |
October 1 |
Poplar Springs Church |
October 2-5 |
Yellow House |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
November 5 |
Fort Morton |
November 6, 1864 |
Consolidated with 7th New Jersey Infantry |
