5th Michigan participates in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Civil War Days District-wide school field trip. Friday, April 26, 2002 (view Photos). The 5th Michigan Regiment Band was once known as the 5th Michigan Infantry Band. For 108 years, from 1865 - 1973, it was just a memory. Then as a State of Michigan Bicentennial project it was recreated in the form of the Fifth Michigan Regiment Band. In ...