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38th Indiana
Infantry
in the American Civil War
Online Books:
38th
Indiana Infantry Officer Roster - Report of the Adjutant General of the
State of Indiana, Volume 2, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1865 View Entire Book
38th
Indiana Infantry Soldier Roster - Report of the Adjutant General of the
State of Indiana, Volume 5, by W.H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Indiana, 1866 View Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| Thirty-eighth Indiana Infantry. — Cols., Benjamin F. Scribner,
Daniel F. Griffin, David H. Patton; Lieut. -Cols., Walter Q. Gresham, James B.
Meriweather, Daniel F. Griffin, William L. Carter, David H. Patton, Isaac Brinkworth;
Majs., James B. Meriweather, Daniel F. Griffin, John B. Glover, William L. Carter, Joshua
B. Jenkins, Henry F. Perry, Isaac Brinkworth, William C. Shaw. This regiment was organized
at New Albany and was mustered in Sept. 18, 1861. It left the state Sept. 21 for
Elizabethtown, Ky.; remained at Camp Nevin on Barren river, and Camp Wood on Green river,
near Munfordville, until spring, when it moved with Buell's army against Bowling Green and
Nashville. On March 25 it moved to Franklin, thence to Columbia, and thence to
Shelbyville, making frequent marches against Forrest's cavalry and being in a skirmish
near Rogersville. It moved to the front of Chattanooga, thence to Shelbyville and
Stevenson, going from there to Decherd. On Aug. 17 it fell back to Nashville, marched with
Buell's army to Louisville, accompanied it in the Kentucky campaign and was engaged at
Perryville, where it lost 27 killed, 123 wounded and 7 captured. It was attached to the
1st division, 14th army corps, on Nov. 21 at Bowling Green, moved to Nashville in
December, and thence to Murfreesboro. At the battle of Stone's river, it lost 14 killed
and 86 wounded. It then remained in camp until the movement for Chattanooga, in which it
joined, and was in the action at Hoover's gap. It was engaged at Chickamauga, losing 9
killed, 59 wounded and 42 missing. It next participated at Lookout mountain and Missionary
ridge, and passed the winter at Rossville, Ga., and Chattanooga. The regiment reenlisted
as a veteran organization on Dec. 28, 1863, and was furloughed home. It returned to
Chattanooga, Feb. 26, 1864, and moved in March to Tyner's Station and later to Graysville,
Ga. It joined Sherman's army on May 7, and was engaged in all the battles and skirmishes
of the Atlanta campaign, losing 103 in killed, wounded and missing during the movement. At
Jonesboro it carried the enemy's works in a charge, the color-bearer being killed as he
planted the colors inside the works. It then marched in pursuit of Hood's army as far as
Gaylesville, Ala., and then returned to Atlanta. It was in the march to Savannah, where it
remained until early in 1865, when it moved through Georgia and the Carolinas to
Goldsboro, being engaged at Averasboro, Bentonville and the many minor engagements of that
campaign. It marched to Raleigh, and after Johnston's surrender, to Washington, averaging
on this last march 32 miles a day. It was transferred to Louisville, Ky., and mustered out
July 15, 1865. The original strength was 995; gain by recruits, 786; reenlistments, 247;
total, 2,028. Loss by death, 353; desertion. 58; unaccounted for, 77. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 3
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