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Isaac J. Neagley – Millersburg Photographer
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on July 2, 2018
Civil War veteran Isaac J. Neagley is buried at the National Cemetery at Hampton, Virginia. Dauphin County, There is also a government-issue marker #10957 (above) which indicates service as a Corporal in a Pennsylvania regiment. He died at the Soldiers’ Home on 31 May 1916.
In the cemetery at Killinger, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, there is a stone which gives the birth year of Isaac Neagley as 1835 and death year as 1885 as well his wife Mary’s dates of 1842-1923. This Isaac Neagley is not the same Isaac Negaley who served in the Civil War. The wife of this Isaac Neagley was the former Mary Seal of Upper Paxton Township who was born in 1842 and died in 1923.
In Market Square in Millersburg, Isaac Neagley is also named on the Millersburg Soldier Monument:
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From A Celebration of Millersburg’s Bicentennial, pages 129-130, published in 2007:
Isaac J. Neagley
The Millersburg Sentinel for 6 November 1885, states that Mr. Isaac Neagley is erecting a building on the southeast part of the public square near the First National Bank which will be used for a photography gallery. The gallery was open for business by January 1886, but in March it was reported he would soon move to a building on the lot of John J. Bowman (where the Post Office now [2007] stands). In November 1887, Neagley with Albert P. Todd as a partner, opened the Model Photographic Studio. By March 1888 Neagley was operating the studio alone, and the following year he built an addition to the studio. In 1890 he was listed as being on the South side of Union Street between Walnut and East Alley (Boyd). In 1892 Neagley took over his brother’s undertaking and funeral business and a year later hired W. E. Toomer to operate the gallery until about 1896. Sometime after this date Mr. Neagley resumed the photographic business with a gallery on North street.
Mr. Neagley served with the Union Army during the Civil War and applied for a pension based on that service in 1899.
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Isaac Neagley‘s first Civil War service was as a Private in the 3rd Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency Militia of 1862). At the time he was 22 years old and he gave his occupation as undertaker and his residence as Union County. His only other physical description was that he had brown hair and hazel eyes. He enrolled in Company B of that militia on 12 September 1862, and was discharged at the end of the emergency on 25 September 1862.
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On 28 October 1862, an Isaac Negley was drafted into the 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company B, as a Private. He served in that company and regiment until his honorable discharge on 1 August 1863.
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On 14 July 1864, Isaac J. Neagley was mustered into service in a 100 day regiment, the 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, as a Private.
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On 4 September 1864, he was transferred into Company A of that same regiment, but at the rank of Corporal. His honorable discharge came on 24 June 1865.
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For his service in the above regiments, Isaac J. Neagley (alias Isaac Negley), applied for a pension on 7 January 1899. There is no widow application noted on the Pension Index Card from Ancestry.com (shown above). Thus far no record had been located to indicate that the Isaac Neagley who served in the Civil War was ever married. Note that on the Pension Index Card, there is no mention of service in the 3rd Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency Militia of 1862).
A second card from Fold3, gives the information for the same pensioner, Isaac J. Neagley, with the date of death as 31 May 1916, death occurring at the National Soldiers’ Home, [Hampton] Virginia. Note also that on the Pension Index Card from Fold3, there is no mention of service in the 3rd Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency Militia of 1862).
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The record for Isaac J. Neagley from the Hampton Soldiers’ Home is shown above (from Ancestry.com). The record gives all but the militia service and then provides information about Isaac’s domestic history as follows: He was born in Millersburg; he was 72 years old and 5 foot 8 inches tall at the time of admission; he had a dark complexion, dark eyes, and grey hair; he could read and write; he was a Protestant; his occupation was cabinet maker; he lived in Philadelphia subsequent to his discharge. he was single; and his closest relative was a sister, Mrs. Andrew Ossman, who lived in Paxton, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
His home history indicates he was first admitted on 21 May 1913, but discharged on 13 January 1914. Then he was secondly admitted on 5 May 1915, but died during that stay on 31 May 1916, of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Finally, in “General Remarks” in the home record, a notation is made that Isaac J. Neagley is buried in Grave 10907 in the new “N. Cemetery” [National Cemetery].
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