The 28th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 28th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at Louisville and New Haven, Kentucky and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on May 9, 1862, under the command of Colonel William P. Boone. The regiment was attached to 16th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, January–February 1862. 23rd Independent Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to August 1862. Dumont's Independent Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to October 1862. District of Louisville, Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to November 1862. Clarksville District, Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Reserve Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. Unattached, Department of the Cumberland, to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to May 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, to August 1865. Department of Texas to December 1865. The 28th Kentucky Infantry mustered out of service on December 14, 1865. Detailed service Duty at Shepherdsville, Ky., October to December 1861. Moved to New Haven, Ky., and guard Louisville & Nashville Railroad and Lebanon Branch and at Bowling Green, Ky., and Franklin, Ky., until July 1862 (a detachment at Gallatin, Tenn.). Operations against Morgan July 4–28. Lebanon July 12. Attack on Gallatin August 12 (Companies A, B, D, E, and F). Guarding railroad and operating against guerrillas between Green River and the Cumberland River and Louisville & Nashville Railroad until December 1862. Munfordville and Woodsonville, Ky., September 14–17 (Company I). Garrison at Clarksville, Tenn., December 1862, to August 1863. Regiment mounted and engaged in scouting about Clarksville with many skirmishes. Ordered to Columbia August 25. Scouting and outpost duty on flanks of the army and about Chattanooga until January 1864. Action at Railroad Tunnel, near Cowan, October 9, 1863 (detachment). Reconnaissance toward Dalton, Ga., January 21–23, 1864. Near Dalton January 22. Picketing roads south of Chattanooga toward Lafayette, Resaca and Dalton, Ga., until March. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22–27. Rocky Faced Ridge and Buzzard's Roost Gap February 23–25. At Pulaski, Tenn., until April. At Lee and Gordon's Mills until April 20. Dismounted April 20 and joined IV Corps. Atlanta Campaign May 1 to September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8–13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8–9. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Adairsville May 17. Near Kingston May 18–19.