The Battery C, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service Battery C was organized at Wheeling in western Virginia between January 25, 1862 and March 30, 1862.
Battery C was mustered out on June 28, 1865. It had a total of 173 men, with 106 enlisting from Washington County, Ohio, and 67 from West Virginia.Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of West Virginia for the Year Ending December 31, 1864, John F. M'Dermot, Public Printer, Wheeling, 1865, pg. 708Newton, Charles Humphreys, Volunteers of Washington Co., Ohio, War of the Rebellion 1861-65, Marietta, Ohio, 1913
The 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment lost 33 men, killed and died of wounds; 131 men, died of disease, accident or in prison; total deaths, 164 men. (all 8 batteries)
[Source: Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1865, by William F. Fox]
Command Structure OFFICERS Frank Buell 1st Captain (killed at Freeman's Ford, August 22, 1862) Dennis O'Leary Sr. 1st. Lieut. Wallace Hill Jr. 1st. Lieut. (promoted 2nd Captain, Sept. 1, 1862 vice to Buell) John G. Theis Sr. 2nd. Lieut. (promoted Jr. 1st. Lieut. Sept. 1, 1862 vice to Hill) William W. Withrow Jr. 2nd Lieut.(promoted Sr. 2nd. Lieu. Sept. 1, 1862 vice to Theis) Henry M. Langley (promoted from orderly sergeant to Jr. 2nd. Lt., Sept. 1, 1862, vice Withlow) Wesley Miner (promoted to Jr. 2nd. Lieut., January 1, 1863, vice Withrow, resigned) STAFF SERGEANTS F. G. Field Appointed Sr. 2nd. Lieut. 1st. Sergeant Thomas Phelps Q. M. LINE SERGEANTS 1. Owen O'Neil 2. John B. Hagan discharged March 14, 1863 3. Alexander H. Buckley 4. Leonidas R. Miraben 5. David Dow 6. William Goldsmith 7. Albert U. Moore Appointed, vice to Hagan CORPORALS 1. Farrel Cusack 2. William F. Minster 3. William H. Ranger 4. John Lehnhard 5. Jeremiah A. Dooley 6. James Wright 7. John Meighan 8. John W. Jacobs Appointed Jr. 2d. Lieut 9. Milton H. Laughlin 10. George W. Stanley 11. John N. Miner 12. Lafayette Franks BUGLERS Frank B. Brenan William Jenvey ARTIFICER Samuel S. Patterson David Wagoner
CASUALTIES Braddock, S.J. Killed July 2, 1863 Bramhall, Jos Died March 4, 1863 Eaton, John Wounded Bull Run; died September 4, 1862 Henning, Henry Died September 13, 1862. Holden, Chas. A Died November 10, 1862 Hutchinson, Jos. T Died September 12, 1863 Lacey, Chas Killed July 3, 1863 Perry, JNO Died September 15, 1862 Reynolds, JNO Wounded Cross Keys; discharged Rogers, F. M. Died March 1, 1863 Rogers, M. C. Died March 7, 1863 Steeber, Adam Died July 4, 1863 Strong, Samuel Died August 23, 1863
References The Civil War Archive
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See also West Virginia Units in the Civil War West Virginia in the Civil War