William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington

Thirty-Eighth Ohio Infantry.

Total of killed and wounded, 531.

Present, also, at Perryville; March to the Sea; The Carolinas.

notes.--Organized, September 1, 1861, at Defiance, Ohio. In the following month it moved into Kentucky, where it was assigned to Schoepf's Brigade, of Thomas's Division, with which command it marched on the Mill Springs campaign. In March, 1862, it moved with Thomas's Division to Pittsburg Landing, arriving too late to participate in the battle, but in time for the subsequent operations connected with the Siege of Corinth. During the summer of 1862, the regiment shared in the campaigns of the Army of the Ohio, joining in September, 1862, in the retrograde movement from Chattanooga to Louisville. At Stone's River it fought in Walker's Brigade, Fry's Division, Fourteenth Corps. It was absent from Chickamauga, having been detailed to guard a wagon train. At Missionary Ridge, it fought in Baird's (3d) Division, Fourteenth Corps, losing 9 killed--including Colonel Phelps--and 37 wounded. The regiment reenlisted during the winter of 1863-64, and went home on furlough. A large number of recruits were received, so that it entered the Atlanta campaign, May, 1864, with about 750 men; it was then in Este's (3d) Brigade, Baird's (3d) Division, Fourteenth Corps. At Utoy Creek, Aug. 5th, three companies, numbering 120 men, made a successful charge on the enemy's skirmish line, but with a loss of 9 killed, and 42 wounded. Este's Brigade distinguished itself at Jonesboro by a gallant and successful assault which cost it one-third its number, the Thirty-eighth losing 42 killed and 108 wounded. out of 360 engaged. Colonel Choate and two color bearers were killed in this battle.