* 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.
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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
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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.
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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unpublished history of which is an inexhaustive mine of information.