previous next

5th Missouri Regiment Infantry.

3 months.)

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., May 18, 1861.

Attached to Lyons' Army of the West.

Expedition from St. Louis to Potosi May 15 (Co. “A” ).

Moved to Springfield, Mo., June 16-17.

Action at Dry Forks July 5.

Expedition toward Fayette, Ark., August 3-5.

Battle of Wilson's Creek August 10.

March to Rolla, thence to St. Louis August 11-21.

Mustered out August 27, 1861.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 24 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 32 Enlisted men by disease. Total 58.

3 years.

Organized at St. Louis March 18, 1862, by consolidation of 5th United States Reserve Corps, Voerster's Company Sappers and Miners, Giester's Company Pioneers and Winkelman's Company Pontooneers.

Guard bridges on Iron Mountain Railroad and duty in Southeast Missouri till July.

At Cape Girardeau, Mo., till November, 1862.

Company “F” in District of Mississippi July, 1862.

Companies “A” and “I” transferred to 25th Missouri Infantry, and Companies “H” and “K” to 27th Missouri Infantry. Companies “B,” “C,” “D,” “E,” “F” and “G” mustered out November 22, 1862.

1908.

Tufts University provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Winkelman (1)
Voerster (1)
Giester (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: