The 38th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The 38th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized in Defiance, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on September 1, 1861, under the command of Colonel Edwin D. Bradley.
The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, Army of the Ohio, OctoberâÂÂNovember 1861. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division (Center), XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps, to October 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps, to July 1865.
The 38th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky, on July 12, 1865.
Ordered to Nicholasville, Ky., September 1. At Camp Dick Robinson, Ky., until
October 19. March to relief of Wild Cat October 19âÂÂ21. March to Somerset, Ky., and duty there until January 1862. Advance on Camp Hamilton, Ky., January 1âÂÂ17, 1862. Battle of Mill Springs, Ky., January 19âÂÂ20. Moved to Louisville, Ky., February 10âÂÂ16; thence to Nashville, Tenn., via Ohio and Cumberland Rivers February 18-March 2. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 20-April 8. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville June 1âÂÂ6. March to Iuka, Miss., June 22; thence to Tuscumbia, Ala., June 26. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., July 19âÂÂ22; thence to Deckard, Tenn., July 27. Decatur, Ala., August 7 (detachment). March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1âÂÂ15. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26âÂÂ30. Battle of Stones River December 30âÂÂ31, 1862 and January 1âÂÂ3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until March, and at Triune until June. Expedition toward Columbia March 4âÂÂ14. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Hoover's Gap June 24âÂÂ26. Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Conducting trains of the army from the Cumberland to Chattanooga during battle of Chickamauga, and Chattanooga, Tenn., September 25âÂÂ26. Siege of Chattanooga September 26-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23âÂÂ27. Orchard Knob November 23âÂÂ24. Missionary Ridge November 25. Regiment reenlisted December 1863. Atlanta Campaign May 1 to September 8, 1864. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8âÂÂ11. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8âÂÂ9. Battle of Resaca May 14âÂÂ15. Advance on Dallas May 18âÂÂ25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Ackworth June 4. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11âÂÂ14. Lost Mountain June 15âÂÂ17. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5âÂÂ17. Peachtree Creek July 19âÂÂ20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5âÂÂ7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25âÂÂ30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29-November 3. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10âÂÂ21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Fayetteville, N. C. Battle of Bentonville March 19âÂÂ21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10âÂÂ14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review of the Armies May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 12.
The regiment lost a total of 369 men during service; 8 officers and 132 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 227 enlisted men died of disease.