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Field & Staff Officers
Colonel Benjamin F. Kelley Lieutenant-Colonel Henry B. Hubbard
Major Isaac H. Duval 2d Lieutenant & Adjuant John B. Lukens
2d Lieutenant & Regimental Quartermaster Isaac M. Pumphrey Surgeon Joseph Thoburn
Assistant Surgeon John D. M. Carr Sergeant Major William B. Kelley
Quartermaster Sergeant William T. Singleton Drum Major Sergeant Timothy Gohager

Company Information & Officers

Company "A" (The Rough and Ready Guards/Rifles)
Organized in Wheeling, (West) Virginia on May 10, 1861
  • Captain Andrew H. Britt
  • 1st Lieutenant Joseph D. Britt
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) Thomas O'Brien

Company "B" (The Iron Guards)
Organized in Wheeling, (West) Virginia on May 11, 1861

  • Captain Edward W. Stephens, Jr.
  • 1st. Lieutenant Charles A. Griffin
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) Thomas H. Norton

Company "C" (The Henry Clay Guards)
Organized in Wheeling, (West) Virginia on May 15, 1861

  • Captain Isaac N. Fordyce
  • 1st Lieutenant Thomas McK. NcNeely
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) James W. Singleton

Company "D" (The Madison Guards)
Organized in Steubenville, Ohio on May 15, 1861

  • Captain Mountford S. Stokeley
  • 1st Lieutenant Christopher H. Orth
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) John I. McCook

Company "E" (The Washington Guards)
Organized in Wheeling, (West) Virginia on May 16, 1861

  • Captain George C. Trimble
  • 1st Lieutenant Jacob Weddle
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) John B. Trimble

Company "F" (The Enterprise Company?)
Organzed in Wellsburg, (West) Virginia on May 17, 1861

  • Captain John C. Park
  • 1st Lieutenant Oscar F. Melvin
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) Enos W. Melvin

Company "G" (Company Name Unknown)
Organized in Wellsburg, (West) Virginia on May 18, 1861

  • Captain James I. Kuhn
  • 1st Lieutenant James C. White
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) Albert W. Kuhn

Company "H" (The Cameron Company ?)
Organized in Cameron, (West) Virginia on May 21, 1861

  • Captain James F. Donnelly
  • 1st Lieutenant Samuel B. Stidger
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) John S. McDonald

Company "I" (The Hancock Guards)
Organized in New Cumberland, (West) Virginia on May 21, 1861

  • Captain Bazzalleel W. Chapman
  • 1st Lieuenant Thomas Lloyd
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) Richard H. Brown

Company "K" (The North Wheeling Guards)
Organized in Wheeling, (West) Virginia on May 23, 1861

  • Captain George W. Robinson
  • 1st Lieutenant Charles Bryson
  • Ensign (2d Lieutenant) Peter Crawford

Please Note: If anyone has any information on the Company names of this Regiment, missing names or corrections please email the webmaster.
Thank you,

WVRA staff