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 Michigan Infantry.

263 killed == 13.9 per cent.

Total of killed and wounded 1018 captured and missing, 173; died in Confederate prisons (previously included) 68.

Present, also, at Yorktown; Chantilly; Wapping Heights; Auburn; Kelly's Ford; Deep Bottom; Farmville; Appomattox.

notes.--The Fifth sustained the heaviest loss in battle of any Michigan regiment. Its first experience in battle was at Williamsburg, where the three Michigan regiments in Berry's Brigade won merited honors, the loss of the Fifth in that battle amounting to 29 killed, and 115 wounded. It was also hotly engaged at Fair Oaks, where it lost 31 killed, 105 wounded, and 19 missing, out of less than 330 engaged. The regiment entered the Seven Days Battle with only 216 men, of whom 59 were killed, or wounded. Major John D. Fairbanks, commanding the regiment, was killed at Glendale. At Fredericksburg the commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel John Gilluly, was killed while leading a charge, the casualties in the regiment aggregating 10 killed, and 73 wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward T. Sherlock succeeded to the command, and was killed in the next battle--at Chancellorsville. At Gettysburg — in Birney's Division — it lost 19 killed, 86 wounded, and 4 missing. It marched with the Second Corps on the campaign of May, 1864, numbering 365 men, as officially reported; its casualties a few days later at the Wilderness, were 16 killed, 79 wounded, and 2 missing; total, 97. Of the small number remaining, 58 fell the next week at Spotsylvania. In June, 1864, the regiment received 325 men from the Third Michigan, which, with subsequent accessions, enabled it to preserve its organization until the end of the war.