“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.
NOTES
COL. CLARKE—CAPT. BUELL.
A strange coincidence is that of the similar deaths of Colonel Clarke and Captain Buell. Within 18 months from the morning upon which Col. Clarke presented to our company the beautiful flag mentioned as the gift of the women of Marietta and its acceptance by Captain Buell, both had fallen in battle, Col. Clarke leading his regiment, the 36th O. Infantry, at Antietam, Maryland, and Captain Buell commanding his battery, C, 1st W. Va. Light Artillery, at Freeman’s Ford, Virginia.
(From the “Marietta Intelligencer” of May 1, 1861.)
“The following is a part of a communication from one who occasionally contributes to our columns. It is a worthy tribute to the stranger volunteer.
“... But I cannot close without paying a passing tribute to the noble heroism of one of the volunteers who left us, today. I saw in the ranks a young German who evidently was a stranger here. I was told that he was simply on a visit to this country, but seeing the hour of peril upon us he boldly stepped into the ranks of those brave and true hearts who have just left us. As they moved down to the boat and friends were taking a final parting, he burst into tears, saying: ‘I have no friends here to bid me good bye.’ I need not say how a chord was struck by those simple words which went to every heart; his hands were grasped with a fervor which told that such noble self-sacrifice claimed the homage of every true heart.”
John T. Booth, in his diary under date of June 19th, in camp near Bridgeport, Va., notes: “I received a letter today from Miss Mary J. Krewson, of Birmingham, opposite Pittsburg, Pa. (the lady who at the close of the war became my wife.) We were playmates when about three years of age.” (Note—Dr. Booth and his good wife are both living and enjoying the comforts of an ideal home at No. 3646 Central avenue, Cincinnati, O.)