38th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

The 38th Wisconsin was organized at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service on April 15, 1864. The regiment was mustered out on July 26, 1865.{{cite book|url= https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00quin |title= The Military History of Wisconsin |year= 1866 |last= Quiner |first= Edwin Bentley |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00quin/page/845/ |chapter= Regimental History–Thirty-Eighth Infantry |pages= 845–853 |publisher= Chicago, Clarke & co. |accessdate= November 18, 2021 }}

The 38th Wisconsin suffered 1 officer and 56 enlisted men killed or fatally wounded in action and 56 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 113 fatalities.{{cite book|url= https://archive.org/details/rosterofwisconsi02wisco |title= Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/rosterofwisconsi02wisco/page/632 |publisher= Office of the Adjutant General of Wisconsin |year= 1886 |chapter= Thirty-Eighth Regiment Infantry |accessdate= November 18, 2021 }}

• Colonel James Bintliff (April 15, 1864{{spaced ndash}}June 27, 1865) mustered out. Received an honorary brevet to brigadier general.
• Lt. Colonel Colwert K. Pier (June 27, 1865{{spaced ndash}}July 26, 1865) was designated colonel after the resignation of Colonel Bintliff, but was never mustered at that rank. He was the first American child born at what is now Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, the son of Edward Pier.

• Courtland P. Larkin, the son of Charles H. Larkin, was major of the regiment.
• Solon Pierce was 1st lieutenant in Co. K. After the war he served as a Wisconsin legislator.
• Anson Rood was quartermaster for the regiment. After the war he served as a Wisconsin legislator.

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• List of Wisconsin Civil War units
• Wisconsin in the American Civil War

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• {{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-J0dAQAAMAAJ |title= Battle Fields and Camp Fires of the Thirty-Eighth Wisconsin Volunteers |last= Pierce |first= S. W. |publisher= Daily Wisconsin Printing House |year =1866 |location= Milwaukee }}

• [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiinf3.htm#38thinf Wisconsin - 38th Regiment Infantry] at Civil War Archive

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