CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA TROOPS
5th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry
- Overview:
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5th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at New Orleans, Louisiana, in May, 1861
with men from New Orleans and the parishes of St. Bernard, Bienville, De Soto, Lafourche, and
Ouachita. Ordered to Virginia and assigned to the Department of the Peninsula, the unit totalled
744 men in April, 1862. During the war it was attached to General McLaws', Semmes', Hays',
and York's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It participated in many conflicts from the Seven
Days' Battles to Cold Harbor,
marched with Early to the Shenandoah Valley, then was involved in the Appomattox operations. The regiment
reported 27 casualties at Manassas Junction, 50 at Sharpsburg, 53 at Chancellorsville, and 7 at Second Winchester. It lost more than thirty
percent of the 196 engaged at Gettysburg and had 123 captured at Rappahannock Station. Only 1 officer
and 18 men surrendered in April, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Henry Forno and
Theodore G. Hunt, Lieutenant Colonels William T. Dean and Bruce Menger, and Major
Alexander Hart.
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