38th Ohio Infantry The 38th Ohio Volunteer Infantry ( or 38th OVI ) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 38th Ohio Infantry 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 , October – November 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 . Detailed service . Ordered to Nicholasville , Ky . , September 1 . At Camp Dick Robinson , Ky . , until October 19 . March to relief of Wild Cat October 19 – 21 . March to Somerset , Ky . , and duty there until January 1862 . Advance on Camp Hamilton , Ky . , January 1 – 17 , 1862 . Battle of Mill Springs , Ky . , January 19 – 20 . Moved to Louisville , Ky . , February 10 – 16 ; 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 1 – 6 . March to Iuka , Miss . , June 22 ; thence to Tuscumbia , Ala . , June 26 . Moved to Huntsville , Ala . , July 19 – 22 ; 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 1 – 15 . Battle of Perryville , Ky . , October 8 . March to Nashville , Tenn . , October 16 - November 7 , and duty there until December 26 . Advance on Murfreesboro December 26 – 30 . Battle of Stones River December 30 – 31 , 1862 and January 1 – 3 , 1863 . Duty at Murfreesboro until March , and at Triune until June . Expedition toward Columbia March 4 – 14 . Tullahoma Campaign June 23 - July 7 . Hoover ' s Gap June 24 – 26 . 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 25 – 26 . Siege of Chattanooga September 26 - November 23 . Chattanooga - Ringgold Campaign November 23 – 27 . Orchard Knob November 23 – 24 . Missionary Ridge November 25 . Regiment reenlisted December 1863 . Atlanta Campaign May 1 to September 8 , 1864 . Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8 – 11 . Buzzard ' s Roost Gap May 8 – 9 . Battle of Resaca May 14 – 15 . Advance on Dallas May 18 – 25 . 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 11 – 14 . Lost Mountain June 15 – 17 . Assault on Kennesaw June 27 . Ruff ' s Station July 4 . Chattahoochie River July 5 – 17 . Peachtree Creek July 19 – 20 . Siege of Atlanta July 22 - August 25 . Utoy Creek August 5 – 7 . Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25 – 30 . 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 10 – 21 . Campaign of the Carolinas January to April , 1865 . Fayetteville , N . C . Battle of Bentonville March 19 – 21 . Occupation of Goldsboro March 24 . Advance on Raleigh April 10 – 14 . 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 May 24 . Moved to Louisville , Ky . , June 12 . Casualties . 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 .