United States Regiments & Batteries > Ohio


The 138th Ohio Regiment lost 8 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1864
Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio. It was one of the “Hundred Days Men regiments” intended for short term rear echelon duties in the summer of 1864.
May 14 Mustered in aand left State for Washington, D.C. under Colonel Samuel S. Fisher
May 16-22 Picket duty at Harper’s Ferry, W. Va.
May 22 Reached Washington
Assigned to duty as garrison at Forts Albany, Craig and Tilinghast, Defenses of Washington, south of the Potomac. Attached to 1st Brigade, DeRussy’s Division. 22nd Army Corps.
June 5 Moved to White House Landing. Va. for picket and guard duty there
June 16 Moved to Bermuda Hundred, Va. for picket and fatigue duty at Bermuda Hundred, Point of Rocks, Broadway Landing and Cherrystone Inlet guarding the telegraph and intercepting rebe mail carriers and blockade runners. Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James.
September 1 Mustered out at Camp Dennison