5th Louisiana Infantry Regiment (Confederate)

5th Louisiana Infantry Regiment (Confederate)
Active	4 June 1861 – 9 April 1865
Country	Confederate States of America
Allegiance	Louisiana
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Regiment (863 men, June 1861)[1]
Part of	1st Louisiana Brigade (Semmes'[2] and Hays'[3])
Engagements	American Civil War Action at Dam No. 1 (1862) Battle of White Oak Swamp (1862) Battle of Cedar Mountain (1862) Second Battle of Bull Run (1862) Battle of Chantilly (1862) Battle of Harpers Ferry (1862) Battle of Antietam (1862) Battle of Fredericksburg (1862) Battle of Chancellorsville (1863) Second Battle of Winchester (1863) Battle of Gettysburg (1863) Second Battle of Rappahannock Station (1863) Battle of the Wilderness (1864) Battle of Spotsylvania (1864) Battle of Cold Harbor (1864) Battle of Monocacy (1864) Second Battle of Kernstown (1864) Third Battle of Winchester (1864) Battle of Fisher's Hill (1864) Battle of Cedar Creek (1864) Siege of Petersburg (1864–65) Battle of Appomattox (1865)
Commanders
Notable commanders	Henry Forno

The 5th Louisiana Infantry Regiment was a unit of volunteers recruited in Louisiana that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Formed in June 1861, the regiment was sent to fight in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. The regiment served at Yorktown, White Oak Swamp, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, and Fredericksburg in 1862. The regiment fought at Chancellorsville, Second Winchester, and Gettysburg in 1863. At Rappahannock Station in November 1863, virtually the whole regiment was captured. The unit's remnant fought at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the Valley campaigns of 1864. It served at Petersburg starting in December 1864 and a mere handful surrendered at Appomattox in April 1865.^[4]

See also

• List of Louisiana Confederate Civil War units
• Louisiana in the Civil War

Notes

1. Bergeron 1989, p. 83.
2. Sears 2001, p. 365.
3. Hennessy 1999, p. 566.
4. Bergeron 1989, pp. 82–84.

References

• Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. 4. Secaucus, N.J.: Castle. 1987 [1883]. ISBN 0-89009-572-8.
• Bergeron, Arthur W. Jr. (1989). Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units 1861-1865. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2102-9.
• Boatner, Mark M. III (1959). The Civil War Dictionary. New York, N.Y.: David McKay Company Inc. ISBN 0-679-50013-8.
• Cozzens, Peter (2008). Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3200-4.
• Hennessy, John J. (1999). Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3187-X.
• Priest, John Michael (1989). Antietam: The Soldiers' Battle. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508466-7.
• Rhea, Gordon C. (1994). The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1873-7.
• Sears, Stephen W. (1996). Chancellorsville. New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Co. ISBN 0-395-87744-X.
• Sears, Stephen W. (2001). To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsular Campaign. New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books. ISBN 0-618-12713-5.
• Trudeau, Noah Andre (2002). Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-019363-8.