Military: Civil War: Companies A & F, Sixth Regiment of Militia: Washington County

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        Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment of Militia

"On the 4th of September Governor Curtin issued a proclamation calling on
the people to arm and prepare for defense....In September 1862 two
companies of men from Washington (many of them past the military age)
marched to the front, and as a part of the Sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania
militia encamped at a point about two miles west of Chambersburg, PA.,
awaiting orders to move against the Confederate army which had crossed the
Potomac into Maryland with the evident intention of invading Pennsylvania."  
"Of the field and staff officers of the Sixth Regiment

Col. James Armstrong,Quartermaster David Aiken, and Chaplain William P. Aldrich were
residents of Washington.  The rolls of the two Washington County companies
are here given viz:  Mustered into service on the 13th of September
and mustered out on the 29th of September; in defense of the State of Pennsylvania."


COMPANY A

OFFICERS:

Capt. Norton McGiffin (Washington)

1st lieut. Samuel M. Templeton (Washington)

2nd lieut. Henry H. Alter (Washington)

1st sergt. James B. Wilson (Washington)

sergts.: 

Charles B. McCollum

David Brady

John W. Wolf

James C Acheson (Washington)

corporals:

Joseph M. Spriggs

Harvery B. McCollum (Washington)

John Steck (Greenburg)

John Wiley

Thomas G. Wolf

James R. Thompson

Henry M. Aiken

John W. Dinsmore (Washington)

musician:

Charles White (Washington)

PRIVATES:

(Washington county, unless otherwise noted) 

Henry H. Arnold

John C. Alrich

William Allen

Isaac N. Bane

John B. Beatty

William S. Beatty

Norton Braddock

William Burke

Samuel Cooke

John L. Cooke

Samuel A. Clarke

George W. Driver

George L. Gow

William Greer

Charles Glaun

John Hainer

John N. Hainer

George Hammond

John B. Hallam

George O. Jones.

Thomas C. Kerr

Joseph C. Keiser

Aexander Litle

George O. Lindsey

Gustavus A. Loukert

Jeremiah Marshall

George W. Murphy

William McClane,

James McCreary

John E. McCullough

Jacob B. McKennan (Brownsville)

Archibald B. McAllister

William Paul

Samuel H. Rial

James Goodrich Ruple

George Rods

John P. Reimund

Anthony D. Rickey

James Seaman

John W. Seaman

Robert F. Strean

John H. Scott

Alex. M. Todd

Theodore Turner

Robert L. Thompson

Dan. C. Vallentine

William C. Vance

Ferdinand J. P. Varro

Thomas M. Wiley

John W. Wiley

Francis J. L. Wiley

John C. S. Weills

David T. Watson

John G. Windworth

Samuel K. Weirich

James S. Wolf

Frederick F. Wotring


COMPANY F

OFFICERS:

Capt. John H. Ewing (Washington)

1st lieut. Alfred Creigh (Washington);

2nd lieut. Samuel O. Williams (Washington)

1st sergt. James M. Byers (Washington);

 sergts.

William F. Fleming

William Hart

Thomas D. O'Hara,

George W. Reed (Washington)

corps.

Samuel W. Griffith

James Brown,

Robert Baird Patterson

James R. Ruth

Matthew P. Linn

William Phillips,

William  W. Smith

Frank Gabby (Washington)

PRIVATES:
(Washington county, unless otherwise noted)

David Aiken

William Amon,

Alexander Agnew

Robert W. Andrews

Andrew J. Buffington

Nathan F. Brobst

John Baird

Hugh J. Cunningham

George W. Clark

Matthew H. Clark

Boyd Crumrine

John R. Donehoo

Richard R. Forest

Samuel Foster

Henry Foster

John Gregg

David Guinea

John J. Guinea

Charles Grier

Joseph Henderson

Joseph Holmes

Samuel Hazlett

George S. Hart

William P. Hart

Samuel Hutson

Joseph A. Jones

James E. Lucas

John P. Linn

John Lowe

William Mathews

Jacob Metzler

George Mitchel

John H. Marshall

John A. Marchand,

T. M. T. McKennan

Thomas McKean

John McElroy

William Post

Colin M. Reed Sr.

Jacob F. Shafer

Samuel Straller

Thomas Stewart

John W. Scott,

John Scott

Sample Sweeney

John R. Sweeney

James Smiley

R. J. Schaffer Thompson

John Wilson

Edward Wilkins

William Wiley

Tappan Wright Wiley,

John Westley

John A. Wills

James S. Young

Source: Boyd Crumrine "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with
Biographical Sketches" (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), pp 363-364