The Ohio 38th Infantry Regiment was organized at Defiance, from July 24, 1861, to April 12, 1862, to serve for three years, and was first ordered into active service in Kentucky. After various marches, covering a wide scope of country, it participated in the battle of Perryville and afterward in the campaign in Kentucky. It fought at Stone's River, then continued throughout the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea, ending with war in North Carolina. The 38th lost during service 8 Officers and 132 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 227 Enlisted men by disease. Total 369.Companies of the Ohio 38th Infantry RegimentCompany A - Company B - Henry County - Company C - Company D - Defiance County - Company E - Defiance County - Company F - Paulding CountyCompany G - Defiance County - Company H - Company I - Company K -

The Alabama 38th Infantry Regiment was organized at Mobile in May 1862, and remained at the defenses in the vicinity of that city till February 1863. It then proceeded to Tullahoma, and was there placed in the brigade of Gen. Clayton of Barbour, with the Eighteenth, Thirty-sixth, and Fifty-eighth of Alabama regiments. The regiment was first under fire with slight loss at Hoover's Gap, and lost nearly half the regiment killed and wounded at Chickamauga. At Missionary Ridge the Thirty-eighth was again hotly engaged at close quarters, and a large number were captured. It wintered at Dalton, and bore its share in the operations of the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, losing severely, particularly at Resaca and Atlanta. From Marietta to the close, Gen. Holtzclaw of Montgomery commanded the brigade. It fought around the latter city, and at Jonesboro. During the Tennessee campaign of Gen. Hood, the regiment felt the blight of the December frost at Nashville, and was in the rear of the retreat. Placed in the defenses at Mobile, the regiment went through the fiery ordeal at Spanish Fort, where it again suffered severely. With the army, it was surrendered at Meridian, Mississippi, about 80 strong.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

The Ohio 21st Infantry Regiment was mostly an all-volunteer unit, with the exception of a few draftees. Most of the men were from Hancock County. The 21st Ohio served for both ninety-day and three-year enlistments and fought exclusively in the Western Theater. It saw action in some of the war's bloodiest battles including Stones River, Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign, and Sherman's March to the Sea. The regiment is known for the fact that men from the unit participated in the Andrews Raid, better known as the Great Locomotive Race. Many of the men of the 21st were captured at Chickamauga and sent to Andersonville where many died.