38th Indiana Infantry Regiment

Service

Detailed service

• Ordered to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, September 21, and duty at Camp Nevin on Nolin Creek until February 1862.
• Advance on Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, February 10-March 6, 1862.
• Moved to Franklin March 25, then to Columbia and Shelbyville.
• Duty at Shelbyville until May 11.
• Action at Rogersville May 13.
• Expedition to Chattanooga May 28-June 16.
• Chattanooga June 7.
• Guard duty at Shelbyville and Stevenson until August.
• Moved to Dechard August 17, then march to Louisville, Kentucky, in pursuit of Bragg, August 21-September 26.
• Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–15.
• Battle of Perryville October 8.
• March to Nashville, Tennessee, 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 June.
• Tullahoma Campaign June 24-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.
• Davis Cross Roads, Dug Gap, September 11.
• Battle of Chickamauga September 19–21.
• Rossville Gap September 21.
• Siege of Chattanooga, September 24-November 23.
• Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23–27.
• Lookout Mountain November 23–24.
• Missionary Ridge November 25.
• Pea Vine Creek and Graysville November 26.
• Ringgold Gap, Tay1or's Ridge, November 27.
• Duty at Rossville, Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, until February 1864, and at Tyner's Station and Graysville until May.
• Atlanta Campaign May 1 to September 8.
• Demonstration 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 Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
• Pickett's Mills May 27.
• 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, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.
• Chattahoochee 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.
• Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 3–26.
• March to the Sea November 15-December 10.
• Siege of Savannah December 10–21.
• Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
• Averysboro, North Carolina, March 16.
• 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, Virginia, April 29-May 20.
• Grand Review of the Armies May 24.
• Moved to Louisville, Kentucky, June.

  Casualties

Commanders

• Colonel Benjamin Franklin Scribner
• Colonel David Henry Patton
• Lieutenant Colonel Daniel F. Griffin

  Notable members

• 2nd Lieutenant Leander "Lee" Clow, Company A - sheriff of Hempstead County, Arkansas; member of Arkansas State Legislature
• Lieutenant Colonel Walter Quintin Gresham - U.S. Postmaster General, 1883; U.S. Secretary of State, 1893–1895; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1884
• Major John Glover - treasurer of Lawrence County, Indiana, 1868; Indiana State Treasurer 1873-1875; U.S. Consul to Harve, France, 1881
• Colonel David H. Patton - U.S. Representative from Indiana, 1891–1893
• Captain Gabriel Poindexter, Company H - mayor of Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1867–1869