DESCRIPTIVE ROLL OF THE COMPANY

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with the after service in the army of each member so far as the same has been ascertained. The names of those who have died are marked with a *.

* CAPTAIN, FRANK BUELL—Commissioned captain of Battery C, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery, January 25th, 1862, and commanded the same until his death. He was mortally wounded at Freeman’s Ford, Virginia, August 22nd, 1862, and died next day at Bealton Station, Va., and his remains buried there.

* FIRST LIEUTENANT, DENNIS O’LEARY.—Commissioned Senior First Lieut. Battery C, 1st West Va. Light Artillery, January 25th, 1862. Mustered out with battery April 22nd, 1865.

* SECOND LIEUTENANT, WILLIAM H. BISBEE.—Elected Major of the regiment at its organization, May 29, 1861. Did not re-enter the service.

* SECOND LIEUTENANT, WALLACE W. HILL.—Elected 2nd Lieut. of the company June 22, 1861, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the promotion of Lieut. Bisbee to Major. Commissioned Junior 1st Lieut. of Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery, January 25th, 1862, and promoted to Captain, October 16, 1862, and commanded the battery from that time until its muster out of the service, April 22, 1865.

* FIRST SERGEANT, JOHN G. THEIS.—Commissioned Senior 2nd Lieut. of Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery, January 25, 1862, and Junior 1st Lieut., October 16, 1862, to date from August 1, 1862. Mustered out with battery, April 22, 1865.

* SECOND SERGEANT, DANIEL Y. HILL.—Mustered out with the regiment, August 28, 1861. Did not again enter the regular service.

* THIRD SERGEANT, OWEN O’NEILL.—Sergeant Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Mustered out with battery, April 22, 1865. Afterwards served 25 years in the Regular Army and was on the retired list of the army at the time of his death, May 7, 1907.

* FOURTH SERGEANT, THEODORE G. FIELD.—First Sergeant Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Promoted to 2nd Lieut., December 1, 1863. Mustered out with the battery. Brevetted Major U. S. Volunteers after the war.

FIRST CORPORAL, WALLACE W. WITHROW.—Commissioned 2nd Lieut., Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery, January 25, 1862. Resigned, December 28, 1862, on account of disability from wounds received in action.

* SECOND CORPORAL, JOHN D. HOLDEN.—Commissioned 2nd Lieut., Battery K, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, October 10, 1861. Promoted to 1st Lieut., February 19, 1862. Resigned, March 27, 1862.

* THIRD CORPORAL, SAMUEL C. SKINNER. Did not re-enter the service.

* FOURTH CORPORAL, GEORGE B. HASKINS.—Commissioned 1st Lieut., Battery K, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, October 10, 1861. Resigned November 2, 1862.

* MUSICIAN, EBENEZER COREY.—Promoted to Drum Major, June 6, 1861. Was afterwards Drum Major and Principal Musician of the 36th Ohio Infantry. Served three years.

* MUSICIAN, MANLY WARREN.—Mustered out with the regiment. Did not re-enter the service.

* MUSICIAN, LOUIS FOUGERE.—Joined Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery as a private. Mustered out with battery.

PRIVATES.

* AMOS, MORDECAI—Enlisted as a private in Co. B, 77th Ohio Infantry, October 14, 1861. Mustered out with regiment March 8, 1866.

BAUER, JACOB—Enlisted in Co. L, 1st Ohio Cavalry, Jany. 5, 1864. Mustered out with regiment October 6, 1865. Waverly, West Va.

BLAIN, ROBINSON—

BOOTH, JOHN T.—Sergeant Co. G, 36th Ohio Infantry, August 12, 1861. Mustered out on expiration of term of service. Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army, Cuban and Philippine war and surgeon 40th U. S. Volunteer Infantry by appointment of President McKinley. Mustered out at expiration of service. Cincinnati, O.

* BORING, ABSALOM—Enlisted in Co. L, 1st Ohio Cavalry, Jan 5, 1864. Mustered out with regiment, September 26, 1865.

BORING, ELI P.—Did not re-enter service.

BRAGG, BENJAMIN—Mustered out July 29, 1861. Sergeant Co. A, 36th Ohio Infantry. Promoted to 2nd Lieut., March 8, 1865. Mustered out with regiment July 27, 1865. Veteran.

Lieut. Bragg has the best record for continuous unbroken service of any member of the company. His enlistment in the 18th Ohio bears date April 17, 1861, and his entry into service with the 36th Ohio was of date July 29th, 1861, two days before the 18th Ohio was disbanded, and 29 days before the formal muster out of that regiment. Lieut. Bragg and the writer were in the field in West Virginia in the three years service when the 18th was mustered out and paid and neither of us received the balance of pay due for our 3 months service until after the war closed.

BUKEY, ALEXANDER H.—Private in Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery, appointed corporal on its organization and promoted to Sergeant, August 1, 1862. Mustered out with battery. Veteran. Washington, D. C.

BURGESS, GEORGE ROYAL.

* CALVERT, JOHN D.—Private Co. K, 60th Ohio Infantry, October 17, 1861. Promoted to Sergeant, February 25, 1862. Mustered out November 10, 1862. Private 176th O. Infantry, February 17, 1865. Transferred to Co. A, 18th O. Infantry, June 28, 1865. Mustered out Oct. 9, 1865.

* CLAUS, HENRY—Did not re-enter the service.

* CLOGSTON, CHARLES W.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Appointed corporal on its organization, promoted to Sergeant December 19, 1862. Veteran.

CLOSE, DANIEL—Private Battery A, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery.

CONIFFE, PETER L.—Did not re-enter the service.

* COREY, JOSEPH.—Private Co. G, 63rd Ohio Infantry. Promoted to Sergeant. Died at Camp Clear Creek, Miss., July 19, 1862.

* DAILEY, THOMAS C.—Private Battery H, 1st O. Light Artillery, August 6, 1862. Appointed Corporal January 7, 1863. Promoted to Sergeant —— —— ——, mustered out with battery.

* DAVIS, JETHRO.—Private Co. B, 39th O. Infantry, Nov. 26, 1863. Corporal March 16, 1865. Mustered out July 9, 1865.

DEMING, T. Y.

* DEVIN, GEORGE W.—Did not re-enter the service.

* DIBBLE, HANNIBAL.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Mustered out with battery. Veteran.

DOW, DAVID.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Appointed Corporal on its organization, promoted to Sergeant, December 19, 1862. Mustered out with battery. Veteran. Marietta, Ohio.

DRISCOL, THOMAS.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Mustered out with battery. Veteran.

* DYAR, THOMAS.—Mustered out July 21, 1861. Private Co. F, 39th O. Infantry, July 21, 1861. Mustered out Aug. 12, 1864 on expiration of his term of service.

FAIRHURST, JEREMIAH.—Private Battery K, 1st O. Light Artillery, Sept. 15, 1861. Appointed Sergeant on its organization. Wounded May 9, 1864. Discharged for disability May 9, 1865. Veteran.

* FISHER, THOMAS.—Mustered out Aug. 12, 1861 to enter service in Co. G, 36th O. Infantry. Private Co. G, 36th O. Infantry. August 12, 1861. Severely wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Discharged for disability. Entered Co. K, 2nd O. Heavy Artillery as Sergt., July 7, 1863. Appointed 1st Sergt., July 1st, 1864. Promoted to 2nd Lieut., March 18, 1865. Not mustered. Mustered out with regiment Aug. 23, 1865.

FOULKE, WM. H.

GAY, WILLIAM.

GILLINGHAM, MILTON.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry. Appointed Corporal, Sept. 19, 1864. Mustered out with regiment.

* GOODMAN, DANIEL.

* GREEN, ALLEN.—Discharged.

HATFIELD, THOMAS.

* HENNING, HENRY.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Died in hospital at Washington, D. C., Oct. 13, 1863.

* HENNING, JOHN.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery —— —— ——. Mustered out with battery. Veteran.

HOLDEN, WILLIAM.—Commissioned 1st Lieut. and Quarter Master 2nd W. Va. Cavalry, Oct. 23, 1861. Resigned March 13, 1862. Appointed Captain and A. Q. M., U. S. Volunteers and served as such to the close of the war. Cincinnati, O.

* KROPP, AUGUST.—Mustered out July 20, 1864. 39th O. Infantry, July 20, 1861. Promoted to 1st Sergeant, and to 1st Lieut., July 3, 1862. Resigned April 1, 1864.

LA GRANGE, LA FAYETTE D.—Private Co. B, 9th O. Cavalry, Nov. 8, 1862. Promoted to Corporal —— —— ——. Mustered out with Co., July 20, 1865. Hoskinsville, Ohio.

LAUGHLIN, MILTON H.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Appointed Corporal. Mustered out with Battery. Veteran.

LIVING, FREDERICK.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Mustered out with battery. Veteran. Letart, W. Va.

* LOUFMAN, PHILIP L.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Mustered out with battery. Veteran.

* McCULLOUGH, JOHN.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry, Sept. 16, 1861. Discharged Feby. 19, 1862 on surgeon’s certificate of disability.

McNAMARA, THOMAS.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry. Discharged Dec. 16, 1861 on Surgeon’s certificate of disability.

* MINER, JOHN N.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Promoted to Corporal. Mustered out with battery. Veteran.

* MINER, WESLEY.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery, March 30, 1862. Promoted to Sergeant and to 2nd Lieut. January 12, 1863. Resigned April 4, 1863.

* MIRABEN, LEONIDAS R.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Promoted to Sergeant. Mustered out with Battery. Veteran.

* MORRIS, AUGUSTUS.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Mustered out with battery. Veteran.

MORSE, WILBUR F.—Private Co. G, 36th O. Infantry. Appointed Sergeant on its organization. Mustered out Sept. 4, 1864, on expiration of term of service. Bevier, Mo.

MEIGHAM, JOHN.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Promoted to Corporal. Mustered out with battery. Veteran.

NORTH, THOMAS H.—Private Co. G, 36th O. Infantry, August 12, 1861. Appointed Sergeant on its organization. Mustered out on expiration of term of service. Kist, Oregon.

PADDEN, ANTHONY.—Lancaster, O.

PALMER, JEWETT, JR.—Mustered out August 12, 1861 to accept promotion as Captain Co. G, 36th O. Infantry. Promoted to Major May 9, 1864. Resigned Nov. 30, 1864. Veteran. Marietta, O.

* PARKER, JAMES S.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry, Sept. 16, 1861. Discharged June 14, 1863 on Surgeon’s certificate of disability.

PHELPS, JAMES.

* PHELPS, THOMAS.—Appointed Q. M. Sergeant Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery on its organization. Mustered out with Battery. Veteran.

PIXLEY, GEORGE.—Did not re-enter the service. Mansfield, O.

PIXLEY, WALLACE W.—Private Battery H, 1st O. Light Artillery, Nov. 10, 1861. Promoted to Sergeant, to 1st Sergeant and to 2nd Lieut. Served a time as acting Quarter Master of the Artillery Brigade of the 6th Army Corps. Mustered out July 3, 1865. Veteran. Marietta, O.

QUINBY, DANIEL W.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry, January 4, 1864. Mustered out September 26, 1865. Was also private in Co. A, 87th Ohio, for three months. Belle Plaine, Kas.

* RANGER, JOHN.—Private Battery H, 1st O. Light Artillery, Oct. 21, 1861. Mustered out October 21, 1864 on expiration of term of service.

* RANGER, WM. H.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Promoted to Corporal. Mustered out with Battery. Veteran.

* REIGNEY, MILTON.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry, Sept. 16, 1861. Discharged May 1, 1862 on Surgeon’s certificate of disability.

* REPPERT, WALTER.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry, Feby. 1st, 1863. Promoted to Corporal Sept. 19, 1864. Mustered out with regiment Sept. 26, 1865.

* RIPLEY, P. S.—Private Co. C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Mustered out with Battery. Veteran.

* ROBINSON, WILLIAM.—Did not re-enter the service.

* SCHERER, PETER.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery.

SCOTT, WILLIAM N.

* SHAW, JOHN L.—Did not re-enter the service.

SHIRES, ROBERT.—Musician Co. D, 63rd O. Infantry. Appointed Principal Musician, July 21, 1862. Mustered out with the regiment. Veteran.

* SHOCKLEY, DAVID.—Bugler, Battery H, 1st O. Light Artillery, October 28, 1861. Mustered out with battery. Veteran.

* SHOOP, HUGH.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Promoted to Corporal. Discharged Dec. 19, 1862.

SMITH, JOHN W.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry, Sept. 16, 1861. Discharged March 2, 1863, on Surgeon’s certificate of disability.

* SNODGRASS, WILLIAM H.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry, Sept. 16, 1861. Promoted to Corporal but was reduced at his own request. Mustered out with company Sept. 26, 1865. Veteran.

* STANLEY, JAMES.—First Lieutenant, Co. G, 36th O. Infantry, August 12th, 1861. Promoted to Captain Co. D, June 6, 1862. Mustered out on expiration of term of service.

STANTON, HENRY B.

* STARK, HORATIO O.

STEWART, TARTUS L.

STEWART, WILLIAM.

* STREMPLE, CHARLES.

* THORNILEY, THOMAS R.—Private Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry, Sept. 16, 1861. Died in hospital at Nashville, Tenn, August 23, 1864.

TUCKER, ABNER.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Discharged on Surgeon’s certificate of disability, January 13, 1863. Marietta, O.

TURNER, JAMES.

* UNDERWOOD, OSCAR.—Second Lieutenant Co. L, 1st O. Cavalry, Sept. 16, 1861. Resigned May 31, 1862.

* VICKERS, GEORGE.—Private Co. F, 39th O. Infantry, Dec. 12, 1861. Mustered out with regiment. Veteran.

VOSHEL, JAMES.

WEST, GORDON B.—Private Co. G, 77th O. Infantry, March 12, 1862. Promoted to Sergt. Major, April 1, 1862. Severely wounded, April 6, 1862 at Shiloh. Promoted to 2nd Lieut. Co. G, February 11, 1863, and to 1st Lieut. and Regimental Q. M., March 29, 1865. Commissioned Captain, March 7, 1866, but not mustered. Mustered out with regiment, March 8, 1866.

WILSON, CHARLES P.—Private Co. F, 79th O. Infantry. Served as clerk in the Adjutant General’s department, East Tenn. Nov. 6, 1863, commissioned 1st Lieut. and Adjutant of 2nd North Carolina Mounted Infantry. Resigned August ——, 1864. Pomona, Cal.

“PONY SECTION”

The ten recruits brought to the regiment June 18, by Major Corey, were nearly all boys, whom some one very aptly dubbed “The Pony Section.” Our company being entitled to but two musicians, and having our complement already, these boys were assigned to the other companies of the regiment and were borne upon their rolls, but as the Drum Corps remained with Co. B nearly all the term of our service they were treated as Co. B boys and I append to that of the regular roll of the company their after service.

BRENAN, FRANK R.—Bugler, Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery. Mustered out with battery. Marietta, O.

COREY, HENRY.—Musician, (drummer), Co. G, 36th O. Infantry. Mustered out with regiment, July 27, 1865. Veteran. Moulton, Iowa.

* HOLDEN, CHARLES.—Private Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery, March 30, 1862. Died at Centerville, Va., Dec. 7, 1862.

JENVEY, GEORGE K.—Bugler, Co. F, 2nd W. Va. Cavalry, November 19, 1861. Re-enlisted, January 1, 1864. Mustered out with regiment. Veteran. Washington, D. C.

JUDD, JAMES G.—Musician, (drummer), Co. I, 36th O. Infantry, Aug. 12, 1861. Mustered out with regiment July 27, 1865. Veteran. Marietta, O.

* LANGLEY, HENRY M.—Enlisted in Battery C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery at its organization. Appointed 2nd Lieut., Oct. 16, 1862. Resigned April 22, 1863.

* REGNIER, FREDERICK.—Private Battery H, 1st O. Light Artillery, Oct. 17, 1861. Mustered out Nov. 17, 1864, at expiration of term of service.

ROBERTS, JAMES D.

* SMITH, WM. H.—In gunboat service on western rivers.

TENNEY, JOHN.—Musician, (fifer) Co. E, 36th O. Infantry, Aug. 31, 1861. Appointed Principal Musician, Sept. 10, 1864. Mustered out with regiment. Veteran. Broken Arrow, Okla.


On the expiration of our term of enlistment nearly all the members of the company re-entered the service. I have found but nine who are known not to have re-entered the army, and most of these did more or less militia duty from time to time during the war. Those reentering the service were distributed as follows:

“Buell’s Battery”—C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery 29
Battery A, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery 1
1st Ohio Cavalry 13
36th Ohio Infantry 8
1st O. Light Artillery, Battery H 5
1st O. Light Artillery, Battery K 2
39th Ohio Infantry 4
77th Ohio Infantry 2
63rd Ohio Infantry 2
60th Ohio Infantry 1
79th O. and 2nd N. C. Mounted Infantry 1
9th O. Cavalry 1
70

Of the members of the “Pony Section,” 3 went into “Buell’s Battery,” 3 into the 36th O. Infantry, 1 into the 2nd W. Va. Cavalry, 1 into Battery H, 1st O. Lt. Artillery and 1 into the Gunboat service.

Of those who re-entered the service 21 became commissioned officers and almost all the others became non-commissioned officers. I have accounted for 75 of the company, leaving 24 unaccounted for. The names of these stand on the roll with no explanatory remarks appended.

Those known to have died number 56; those known to be living, 19; unascertained, 24.

The formal muster out of the regiment dates August 28, 1861. The muster in of Co. B dates April 17, 1861, making the term served by the company 4 months and 11 days.


In closing this sketch I want to return my hearty thanks to Dr. John T. Booth, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the kind loan of his invaluable diary of “Three months with the 18th Ohio Infantry 3 months troops.” By its help I have been enabled to fix dates and locations for which I had no other resource. I have drawn largely too from his narrative, at times using his very language, for which I had his generous warrant. He was a member of the company and afterwards spent three years in the service with the 36th O. Infantry. He is the historian of that regiment, his unpublished history of which is an inexhaustive mine of information.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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