William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington

Fifth New Hampshire Infantry.

Of the original enrollment, 175 were killed == 17.9 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 1,051; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 19.

Present, also, at Savage Station; White Oak Swamp; Totopotomoy; Sutherland Station; Appomattox.

notes.--Sustained the greatest loss in battle of any infantry or cavalry regiment, in the whole Union Army. Known to the corps and division commanders as a reliable regiment, it was the more often called upon to face the enemy's fire, or assigned to the post of danger. The rolls were encumbered in 1864 with the names of conscripts and mercenaries; 420 of them deserted, most of them before joining the command. The regiment was always well handled. Colonel Cross was an experienced officer who sustained an excellent reputation in the corps; he fell at Gettysburg while in command of the brigade, having remarked to Hancock as he entered the field, that it would be his last fight. Colonel Crafts, formerly a sergeant in the Second, passed through all the gradations of rank to the colonelcy. The greatest loss, numerically, occurred at Cold Harbor, where the regiment, under Colonel Hapgood, entered the enemy's works, but for a lack of support, was forced to relinquish its position. Hapgood took 577 men into that action, of whom 202 were killed or wounded. At Fredericksburg, under Cross, the regiment lost 20 killed, 154 wounded, and 19 missing; total, 193, out of 303 present. At Gettysburg, Hapgood commanding, it lost 27 killed, and 53 wounded, out of the 12 officers and 165 men engaged. The regiment served throughout the war in the First Brigade, First Division, Second Corps.