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Military: Civil War: Co. E and G, 12th Infantry Rgt, PA Volunteers: Washington Co, PA
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Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
"The companies which marched from Washington borough and Monongahela City
to join the Twelfth Regiment, ... were raised for three months' service, a
term which at that time was thought to be ample for the suppression of the
Rebellion. After the filling of the first quotas the War Department changed
its policy and ceased to accept three months' men, the term of service
required being three years or during the war, with some exceptions of two
years' regiments. The Twelfth was one of the earliest regiments to enter the
field. The field officers had all received a military training. The two
Washington County companies of the Twelfth were designated in the
regimental organization as "E" and "G" companies. Lists of their officers
and enlisted men are given below: (Unit mustered in to service April 25, 1861)"
COMPANY E
Recruited at Washington
OFFICERS
Norton McGiffin, capt., pro. to lieut. col
James Armstrong, capt.
William F. Templeton, 1st lieut
Samuel F. Griffith, 2nd lieut.
Oliver R. McNary, 1st sergt.
David Brady, 2nd sergt.
John Q. A. Boyd, 3rd sergt.
David Acheson, 4th sergt.
John D. McKahan, 1st corp.
Henry Brown, 2nd corp;
Robert B. Elliot, 3rd corp.
George B. Caldwell, 4th corp.
William A. McCoy, musician
Simeon W. Lewis, musician.
PRIVATES
John W. Acheson, Henry H. Alter, James Barr, Edward W. Bausman, Peter
Blonberg, Hugh P. Boon, John V. Brobst, John A. Byers, John L. Cook, Henry
M. Dougan, Horace B. Durant, Tertius A. Durant, Henry Erdman, Hardman
Gantz, John L. Gettys, James Grier, John M. Griffith, Charles Hallam,
William T. Hamilton, Alexander C. Hamilton, William Hart, Eli Hess (died),
William H. Horn, Robert P. Hughes, Andrew J. Hyde, James B. Kennedy, John
Kendall, Phillip P. Kuntz, John Lawton, Joseph Lane, Matthew P. Linn,
Charles L. Linton, John Loughman, Taylor McFarland, Thomas M. McKeever,
John McKeever, Caleb I. McNulty, James W. Montford, William M. Morrison,
Henry C. Odenbaugh, George A. Perrett, Rollin O. Phillips, Henry A.
Purviance, Alexander Rankin, George W. Reed, Samuel B. Rickey (died), John
B. Ritner, Alexander W. Scott, Cephas D. Sharp, David Shepherd, James
Stocking, Andrew J. Swart, John R. Sweeny, Samuel M. Templeton, Joseph H.
Templeton, Robert Thompson, Robert L. Thompson, William H. Underwood, Isaac
Vance, George I. Walker, Andrew W. Wilson, James B. Wilson, Roobert T.
Wishart, Wesley Wolf
COMPANY G
Monongahela Artillery, Recruited at Monongahela City
OFFICERS
Robert F. Cooper, capt.
John S. McBride 1st lieut.
Jesse C. Taylor, 2nd lieut.
William W. Thompson, 1st sergt.
John Myers, 2nd sergt.
Owen Bullard, 3rd sergt.
John S. Slanger, 4th sergt.
Rees Boyd, 1st corp.;
Benjamin F. Scott, 2nd corp.
John H. Woodward, 3rd corp.
Alexander O. D. O'Donovan, 4th corp.
Frederick Layman, Musician
James S. Scott, Musician
PRIVATES
Francis Allen, Isaac R. Beazell, John Boyd, William B. Brooks, John Bellas,
William Baxter, Jr., Samuel W. Beazell, Michael Barry, Patrick Collins,
Sylvester Collins, William S. Cooper, Benjamin D. Dickey, John C.
Dougherty, Andrew Elliot, William H. H. Eberhard, Andrew Grant, Alexander
Gregg, John M. Gibbs, Joseph D. V. Hazzard, S. Bently Howe, William H.
Howe, James S. Harris, William H. Heath, William J. Hoffman, Alexander
Haney, David Kearney, Henry B. King, William G. Kennedy, James L. Long,
Andrew Louderback, Ellis N. Lilley, George C. Leighty, David Morton, James
Mehaffy, Charles McCain, William T. Meredith, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Mack,
William Mack, Daniel Mockbee, Jacob S. Miller, Augustus J. Miller, Hillery
Miller, John Merrick, William Ong, Charles Oliver, William Oliver, George
W. Potts, Samuel B. Paxton, Samuel Pritchard, Joseph G. Reager, Harrison
Remington, John Rinard, Reuben Sutton, George Stewart, Alfred M. Sickman,
Jefferson G. Vangilder, Theophilus Vankirk, Robert S. Wilson, William
Woodward, William H. H. Wickerham, James S. White, Samuel Young, Daniel D.
Yates
--end of Company Rosters E & G, 12th Reserve Regiment from Washington
County, PA---
[From: Crumrine, Boyd, "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with
Biographical Sketches" (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), pp 311-312
in a section entitled "War of the Rebellion".]

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