Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-02
MUSTER INTO SERVICE
OF THE HOME GUARDS"
Coming of Grand Army Recalls
Formation of Two Companies
in Washington.

The holding of the Grand Army Of
the Republic encampment in Washing
| ton recalls the formation in 1851 of the
Home Guards" as Companies and
G of the Interior Department regiment.
composed of employees of the govern
ment printing office. were known.
Company F was formally mustered
into the government service July IL,
1864. and marched to the suburbs when
this city was threatened by the enemy.
| Its services were not needed, how
ever, as the enemy had retreated. Com
pany G was also formed and composed
largely among the bookbinders of the
big print shop. That company was
not mustered into the service until the
following day. and hence saw no &C
tual service"
Company F was supplied with equip
ment by the government in 1861, and
for a year or two regular hours were
allotted to drilling on the cornfields
north Of H street. Nightly guard duty
was regular feature and gun racks
were placed in the different work.
rooms. Veterans of these companies
state that they were never legally mus
tered out of the service, but no claim
has been made for back pay.
Company Personnel.
The roster of Company F was: Cap
tain. James English; first lieutenant.
William Mcleod; second lieutenant.
Charles F. Lowry; sergeants. Daniel
Harbaugh, Norval w. King, Charles D.
Parsons and John Miller: corporals.
Richard Cronin,, A. G. Seamon, William
L. Scott and Thomas Harper. and PR
Yates. C. T. Allen. A. ]. Appleby, H. H.
B. Arnold. William r. Baum, w. M.
Belt. A. R. Bennett. ]. P. Boss, g. w.
Bowen. J. S: Brown. E. T. burnham.
rier. George Cation, J. Charles. J. D.
Chedal. F. Chew, H. A. Christine. R. w.
Claxton. L. F. Clements, A. Cook, J..
Crandall. ]. H. Crown. Lott Cullinan,
Davis. H. L. Dawson. ". A; De caindry.
Roll Defrees. c. ]. De Vaughn. A. J.
Donaldson, E. H. Edmonston, L. r.
Fechtig, William Fleming. G. G.
Forbes. William D. Fowler. Will
liam Franklin; J; 6; Franzoni. vii
George Gordon. John Graham. E. N.
Grey. F. o. Hall, G. w. Hall, James
Hinchey. Charles B. Hough. J. NJ. F.
Hough, J. Hurley, l. A. Iardella, Basil
William L. Jones. J. c. Judge. J. J.
Judge. r. Kelly. william B. Kelly, o. c.
Ketcham, E. Laporte. John Larcombe,
M. T. Lincoln, e. MacMurray. S. Nc
Elwee. s. McGonegal. James Mckinney.
G. A. R. McNeir. C. D. Mcpherson.
Thomas F. Maher. E. Malone. T.
Malone. w. w. Malone, S. Mackey. J.
Malone. W. w. Maloney. s. Mackey. J.
Thomas J; Mulloy; NJ Murphy; c: W.
sons. F. C. Pittman, r.. A. Porter,
Thomas M. Raser, oliver H. Reed. c. w.
Robinson, William Robinson. A.
Rodgers. Jesse Rose. D. S. Sample, c.
C. Sheer. ]. K. Shoemaker. c. B. Smith.
e. M. Spedden. ]. M. A. Spottswood. F.
B. Stitt, F. U. Stitt, Robert Taylor. J. S.
Tomlinson. George Wadsworth. Charles
Wall. H. Walker, F. J. Waters: n.
aker. b. Wiber. Joseph wilkes, M. R.
Woodward and B. c. Wright.
Company q.
The roster of Company was: Cap
tain. George P. Con-: first lieutenant.
Charles Lemon: second lieutenant, John
J. Byrnes; first sergeant. Warden
Bishop. and privates. John E. Bailey,
William H Bailey. William v. Balm.
Thomas 8. Baylie, J. w. Beall. John ].
Behler. Emanuel Bell. J. T. Blakeney.
George D. Burch. William B. Burger.
W. G. Burgess. P. J. Caldwell. G. w.
Clark. R. A. Connell. S. T. Crawford.
F. Cunningham. C. L. Dowden. ]. H.
Dubant. E. T. Ecklon. e. Eidridge.
c. T. Elwood. James H. Elwood. H. C.
Espey. John Espey. M. B. Gordon, c. L.
Graenacher, J. w. Harmer. R B. Hart
ford. William Hayes. John Hill. Michael
Hill. H. D. Hite. ]. H. c. Hollins, w. D.
Hotchkiss. William Hewlett, James J..
Ingraham, Augustus Jacobs. H. D. Jen-'
nings, 1. NJ. Knott. D. w. Landvoigt.
J. A. Landvoigt. J. L. D. Lawrence,
J. H. Mccormick. William Mcdonald,
Henry McIntire. James P. Mexican.
william McLane. Patrick McNamee,
F. A. Manning, r. H. Marcellus. ]. w.
Mattingly, Thomas o. May. F. S. Met
calf. C. H. Meushaw, John w. Meyer,
Frank Miller, William H. Moran, C. L.
Owen, r. p. Pascoe. Thomas B PEN
icks. John A. Perkins. William H.
Peters. jr.: F. c. Philpitt. ]. w. Pye-
mont, ]. L. Ratcliff. E. Ridgway. J. H.
Roberts. Richard Roberts. 6; Rosewag.
William Scott. F. Seibert. D. H. Sem
pie, Moses Smith. Israel Sommers,
Joseph St. Claire, James Stewart,
Thomas F. Stewart, Andrew Tafe, Will
liam H. Taylor, Dennis Toomey, T. M.
Triplett. c. e. Walker, Theodore
Walmsley, C. Walton, John Ward, c. F.
Weaver, w. B. r. Willis, Henry Weise,
James w. witt ard Levi Williams.