Template:On this day/May 5

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 left what is now Washington, continuing east toward St. Louis, Missouri to complete their 8,000-mile journey.
• 1857 – Company A, the Monticello Guard, was formed.
• 1864 – American Civil War: First day of the Battle of the Wilderness, as forces under Ulysses S. Grant clashed with those led by Robert E. Lee.
• 1909 – The bronze Confederate soldier statue At Ready was dedicated at Court Square, honoring the city’s Civil War dead.