Source: HISTORY OF DEKALB COUNTY, INDIANA. B.F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1914, pp. 104-105. THIRTY-EIGHTH INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. In Company D of this regiment were the following men from DeKalb county: George H. Burns, Jacob Brown, John Bruner, William Bryan, James C. Carrell, James C. Delong, Alex. Fountain, Noah Miller and Alexander Shanks. In Company E were Robert Cochran, George Delano, Daniel F. Hammond, Joseph Hose, Solomon Hose, Elijah Imhoff, Thomas J. Jones, Adolphus G. Jones, Stephen Larkens, Joseph Pennick, Frank B. Sandy, Henry J. Sandy, Silas W. Sinclair. In Company F were Henry Crooks, Alonzo Concklin, Erastus Finney, Henry Milleman, Francis M. Stout, John Freeman, John W. Wood. The Thirty-eighth was mustered into the three years' service at New Albany, Indiana, on September 18, 1861, with Benjamin F. Scribner, of New Albany, as colonel. The regiment was assigned with Buell's division, and campaigned through Kentucky and Tennessee in pursuit of Bragg and his Confederates. In the battle of Perryville the regiment took a conspicuous part, and lost twenty-seven men, besides those wounded and made prisoners. The regiment was with Rosecrans in the Murfreesboro campaign and participated in the engagement at Stone's River, losing one hundred men in killed and wounded. The regiment was at Hoover's Gap and also at Chickamauga, where it took part in the engagement at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. In December, 1863, many of the men veteranized, and returned to Indiana on veteran furloughs. At the opening of the Atlanta campaign, May 7, 1864, this regiment marched with Sherman's army, and was engaged in all of the skirmishes and battles of the campaign, namely: Buzzard Roost, Snake Creek Gap, New Hope Church or Pickett's Mills, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, Charrahoochie River, Peach Tree Creek, siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station, and entered Atlanta with Sherman's troops. The regiment was mustered out in July,1865. Submitted by Cheryl Milukas