Template:On this day/May 5

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Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

May 5:

  • 1857 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition leaves the confines of what is now the state of Washington. From here, the explorers will continue east, ending their 8,000-mile "voyage of discovery" in St. Louis, Missouri, four months later.
  • 1857 – Company A: The Monticello Guard was formed.
  • 1864Civil War: Fist day of the Battle of the Wilderness which pitted Grant's army of 101,000 soldiers against Lee’s 61,000 men.
  • 1909 – A life-size bronze statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier, nicknamed "At Ready," was dedicated on Court Square to commemorate Charlottesville's Civil War dead. The dedication, as reported by The Daily Progress, "was afforded all the pomp and pageantry that the city could muster". Two bronze cannons and a tetrahedron of iron cannon-balls stood near the infantryman.