History: "Union and Confederate Soldiers", Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, West Virginia William T. Price, Price Brothers Publishers, 1901. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Barbara Gramp ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, William T. Price, Price Brothers Publishers, 1901. Pages 582 - 585 VI UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS In response to our request for the names of Union and Confederate soldiers, the following are all that have come to hand, furnished by H. P. McLaughlin, Beverly Waugh, and A. L. Gatewood. Company I 25th Reg. Virginia Infantry, C.S.V. D.A. Stofer, Captain. J. H. McLaughlin, 1st Lieutenant. Angus, Timoleon Alderman, Andy C. Akers, James H. Arbogast, Daniel Boon, B. B. Burr, George Burr, Frederick Burr, William Bradley, James Corbett, Mustoe H. Cleek, Peter L. Cash, George H. Carpenter, William H. Cole, William Johnson, Joe Lyons, Enos Moore, Levi McGlaughlin, H. P. Maher, Patrick Moore, Michael Mitche, Sylvester Mathews, J. W. Moriarty, Pat Piles, John Piles, William L. Pence, J. W. Robey, Walter H. Swadly, James Eagon, Charles Ervine, William H. Friel, M. A. Grandfield, John Griffin, M.P. Grimes, Peter Gammon, William Gammon, C. S. Hannah, Robert Hannah, Joseph Helmick, George A. Henson, William H. Hogsett, William R. Herold C. B. Herold B. F. Haines, J. B. Hamilton, A. G. Jordan, Joseph J. Slaven, W. W. Seebert, Lanty S. Sivey, Cain H. Shannon, James Shannon, Michael Smith, Louis Simmons, C. A. Shrader, B. F. Varner, David A. Weaver, C. W. Weaver, R. L. Ware, Eugene Ware, George Ware, William T. Ware, Benjamin Willihan, Michael Willihan, Pat Waugh, Levi This company was engaged in the following battles: Phillip, Mcdowell, Winchester, Cross Keys, Port Republic, Seven days fight around Richmond, Slaughter Mountain, Second Manassas, Bristow Station, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Second Winchester, Gettysburg, Mine Run, and Wilderness. In the latter the 25th Regiment was captured. Seventeen men of Company I were in the capture. They were first taken to Point Lookout, Md., thence to Elmira, N. Y. Eleven of the seventeen lived through the war, the others died prisoners. Twenty men enlisted in Company I, 3d West virginia Cavalry, U.S.A., viz: John Kelly, Perry Buzzard, W. H. Sims, C.O.W. Sharp, Peter H. Grimes, Sargeants; Frank Grimes, Abraham Sharp, C. N. Kelley, J. B. Hannah, Corporals; Beverly Waugh, Lieutenant. Privates Zane B. Grimes, D. K. Sims, Calvin Kelley, J. H. Duncan, Wesley Barlow, Alfred D. Gay, George W. McCarty, Clark Grimes, W. A. Kelley, John W. Tyler. Then there were Union soldiers from this county in other regiments, viz: Andrew Wanless, Nelson Wanless, John Curry, Thomas Akers, William Cutlip, Jeremiah Sharp, Armenius Buzzard, Clark Kellison, Andrew Kellison, James Kee, William Duffield, William Duncan, Joseph Moore, David Moore, Milton Sharp, Brown Arbogast, George Arbogast, James E. Johnson, Clark Dilley, John Slaton, John F. Wanless, Peter McCarty. When the Levels Cavalry under Captain Andrew G. McNeel, 1861, were disbanded, many of its members joined the Bath Cavalry under Captain Archie Richards. April 25, 1862, this company was formed into two companies, "F" and "G," and was known as the Bath Squadron, attached to the 11th Virginia Cavalry. Dr. A. G. McChesney was Captain of Company F. A. C. L. Gatewood, 1st Sergeant, and Edwin S. Beard, 2d Sergeant. The following persons from Pocahontas were members of this company: Moffett Beard, W. W. Beard, John G. Beard, John J. Beard, James Burnside, James Callison, Clark Cochran, George B. Cochran, Andrew Edmiston, Richard Edmiston, Matthew Edmiston, John L. Kennison, Davis Kennison, D. B. McElwee, B. D. McElwee, John McCarty, A. G. McNeel, G. H. Moffett. Foxhall A. Daingerfield was captain of Company G. John Andrew Warwick 2d lieutenant by brevet. Andrew G. Price, James Friel, James W. Warwick, Jr., and George Young were members of the company when organized. Quite a number of our citizens were soldiers in Captain William L. McNeel's and Captain Jacob W. Marshall's companies of mounted infantry, and in Captain J. C. Arbogast's Greenbank company, 31st Virginia Infantry, but the compiler has been unable to secure requisite information respecting them.