Contributed by Ed Prichard
The First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry served its term of service within the continental U.S. Below is a partial roster for the regiment. If you have additional information to contribute to this listing, please consider contributing them to us.
Chaplain Rev. S.K. Arbuthnot
Herbert Dewitt McClintock,
Officers:
Captain - Hooten, Albert L.
Moundsville, WV
1st Lieutenant - Price, Oscar A.
Ronceverte, WV
2nd Lieutenant - Baker, Frank H.
Martinsburg, WV
Captain - Vawter, John E.
Ansted, WV (Resigned)
Captain - Taylor, Raleigh C.
Ansted, WV (Originally mustered in with Co. as 1st Lieut., commissioned
Captain June 11, 1898, Mustered in as Captain June 20, 1898. Resignation
accepted to date Oct.13, 1898)
Sergeants:
First Sergeant Neal, Leonard B.
Proctorville, OH.
Q.M. Sergeant Kyle, Mark C
Montgomery, WV
Sergeant Summers, Joseph
B. Anstead, WV
Sergeant Robinson,
Samuel Charleston, WV
Sergeant Summers, Eusebius
J. Montgomery, WV
Sergeant Payne, Harry
D. Charleston, WV
Corporals:
Ballenger, Henry L. Ansted, WV
Walker, Lewis, J. Ansted, W.Va
Ramsey, Charles R. Martinsburg, WV
Rucker, Walter T. Montgomery, WV
Spencer, Charles B. Ansted, WV
Kirkenbuhl, John Charleston, WV
Manley, Peter J. Wheeling, WV
McCabe, Richard V. Wheeling, WV
Morris, Floyd H. Charleston, WV
Farmer, Laurette Alderson, WV
Mondy, Archie Covington, Va.
Kimball, William E. Rockwood, Ohio
McGraw, Charles M. Ansted, WV (Cook)
Musicians:
Robertson, Charles W. Ansted, WV
Rule, Wiley
Ansted, WV
Other:
Martin, Nathan N. Ansted, WV, Wagoner
Privates:
Discharged:
1st Sergeant Taylor, John C. Ansted, WVTransferred:
Capt. / 2nd Lt. Houston, Henry K Charleston, WV -Transferred to Co. G, 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Dec 8 1898)Deserted:
Private Robinette, Alexander
Officers:
Humphreys, Robert N. Captain (Capt.).
Hooten, Albert L. 1st. Lieutenant (Lt)., later Capt.
Conner, C.W. 2nd Lt.
Sergeants:
Neilson, James. Sgt. Major
Yoho, Robert C. 1st Sergeant
Taylor, William
Parkinson, Samuel
Conner, Pierce E.
Yoho, Robert C.
Corporals:
Donley, E.E.
Conner, William
Wright, Thadeus
Keyser, W.E.
Lutes, W.G.
McGill, Harry
Privates:
The roster below accompanied an article in a Charleston, West Virginia
newspaper stating that these men were owed sums of money for their
service. Their companies are not listed:
The Roster:
William Adkins
James T. Beale
John W. Bellamy
Jacob Block
John W. Boyce
Robert R. Burkley
Suiter T. Burnett
David Burton
Thomas Clark
Walter W. Clark
James Clegg
James W. Clegg
Richard T. Craiger
William C. Davis
G.J. Dennis
John Dennis
Charles F. Dofa
William Elkins
Otis L. Ellis
William A Ewing
Cyrus Grandon
William P. Groso
James Frank Grove
James H. Grove
Albert Harshbarger
John T. Hatfield
Tilden Haverty
Frank M. Hines
William J. Hobbs
Andrew J. Honaker
Floyd L. Hutsler
Joseph C. Jones
Walter A. Jones
H.L. Kirk
Fred Klinge
Luther Knopp
Charles Krauss
Conant Lott
John A. McVey
Samuel C. McVey
Augustus W. Nicholas
John O’Kane
V. B. Putnam
Walter Scott Payne
Jacob Ritz
Joseph Roberts
Jona M. Sampson
Charles Scorggins
Aslvin Sleeth
Edmond Spears
John T. Stone
Clarence S. Thomas
Jordan W. Upton
Frank Waugh
Jacob Whisher
James H. Williamson
Additional info.:
Herbert Dewitt McClintock, Co. F
The Charleston Daily Mail. Sunday Morning, April 3, 1938, p. 3
Dickinson, Jack L., The Muster Roll of the First Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Company K, 1898-1899, Marshall University Digital Scholar (https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=lib_manu) (Contributed by John Allison)Kathie (Walter Scott Payne)
"Marshall Men in the Last War," Moundsville Echo., June 4,
1909. (Additional info. on Company M)(Contributed by John Allison)
Mechler, Suzane Smith - Data on Herbert Dewitt McClintock
Powell, Scott "Marshall County in the Spanish American War," from History
of Marshall County, W. Va., 1925, p.266-267 (Company
M)(Contributed by John Allison)