28th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry The 28th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 28th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Louisville and New Haven , Kentucky and mustered in for a three year enlistment on May 9 , 1862 under the command of Colonel William P . Boone . The regiment was attached to 16th Brigade , Army of the Ohio , January – February 1862 . 23rd Independent Brigade , Army of the Ohio , to August 1862 . Dumont ' s Independent Brigade , Army of the Ohio , to October 1862 . District of Louisville , Kentucky , Department of the Ohio , to November 1862 . Clarksville District , Western Kentucky , Department of the Ohio , to June 1863 . 1st Brigade , 3rd Division , Reserve Corps , Army of the Cumberland , to October 1863 . Unattached , Department of the Cumberland , to April 1864 . 1st Brigade , 2nd Division , IV Corps , Army of the Cumberland , to May 1864 . 2nd Brigade , 2nd Division , IV Corps , to August 1865 . Department of Texas to December 1865 . The 28th Kentucky Infantry mustered out of service on December 14 , 1865 . Detailed service . Duty at Shepherdsville , Ky . , October to December 1861 . Moved to New Haven , Ky . , and guard Louisville & Nashville Railroad and Lebanon Branch and at Bowling Green , Ky . , and Franklin , Ky . , until July 1862 ( a detachment at Gallatin , Tenn . ) . Operations against Morgan July 4 – 28 . Lebanon July 12 . Attack on Gallatin August 12 ( Companies A , B , D , E , and F ) . Guarding railroad and operating against guerrillas between Green River and the Cumberland River and Louisville & Nashville Railroad until December 1862 . Munfordville and Woodsonville , Ky . , September 14 – 17 ( Company I ) . Garrison at Clarksville , Tenn . , December 1862 , to August 1863 . Regiment mounted and engaged in scouting about Clarksville with many skirmishes . Ordered to Columbia August 25 . Scouting and outpost duty on flanks of the army and about Chattanooga until January 1864 . Action at Railroad Tunnel , near Cowan , October 9 , 1863 ( detachment ) . Reconnaissance toward Dalton , Ga . , January 21 – 23 , 1864 . Near Dalton January 22 . Picketing roads south of Chattanooga toward Lafayette , Resaca and Dalton , Ga . , until March . Demonstration on Dalton , Ga . , February 22 – 27 . Rocky Faced Ridge and Buzzard ' s Roost Gap February 23 – 25 . At Pulaski , Tenn . , until April . At Lee and Gordon ' s Mills until April 20 . Dismounted April 20 and joined IV Corps . Atlanta Campaign May 1 to September 8 . Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8 – 13 . Buzzard ' s Roost Gap May 8 – 9 . Battle of Resaca May 14 – 15 . Adairsville May 17 . Near Kingston May 18 – 19 . Near Cassville May 19 . Advance on Dallas May 22 – 25 . Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas , New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25 - June 5 . Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10 - July 2 . Pine Hill June 11 – 14 . Lost Mountain June 15 – 17 . Assault on Kennesaw June 27 . Ruff ' s Station or Smyrna Camp Ground July 4 . Chattahoochie River July 5 – 17 . Buckhead or Nancy ' s Creek July 18 . Peachtree Creek July 19 – 20 . Siege of Atlanta July 22 - August 25 . Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25 – 30 . Battle of Jonesboro August 31 - September 1 . Lovejoy ' s Station September 2 – 6 . Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29 - November 3 . Nashville Campaign November – December . In front of Columbia November 24 – 27 . Spring Hill November 29 . Battle of Franklin November 30 . Battle of Nashville December 15 – 16 . Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17 – 28 . Moved to Huntsville , Ala . , and duty there until March 1865 . Expedition to Bull ' s Gap and operations in eastern Tennessee March 15 - April 22 . Moved to Nashville , Tenn . , and duty there until June . Moved to New Orleans , thence to Texas June and July . Duty at San Antonio and Victoria until December . Casualties . The regiment lost a total of 112 men during service ; 1 officer and 36 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 1 officer and 74 enlisted men died of disease .