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June 2018 Posts
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on July 6, 2018
A listing of the June 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links:
May 2018 Posts
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on July 4, 2018
A listing of the May 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links:
Tower City Area Schools Close to Allow Student Attendance at Ku Klux Klan Picnic, 1925
April 2018 Posts
The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1898
Hugo Black Confesses to Ku Klux Klan Membership, 1937
Obituary of William Young
The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1899
The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1900
Ku Klux Klan Cross Burning at Tower City, 1923
The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1901
Obituary of William Adams, Unattached Drafted Militiaman
Williamstown’s Only Surviving Veteran in 1926
Two Men Named Emanuel Matter
The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1902
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].
The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1909
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on June 29, 2018
During the Civil War, Daniel Paul served as a Private in the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H. After the Civil War, he moved to Michigan, but kept in touch with his Lykens Valley friends and relatives via correspondence to the editor of the Lykens newspaper.
Five results of that correspondence from the year 1909 are reported below:
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ENDERS
Special to the Standard.
Daniel Paul, Mrs. Daniel Rettinger and daughter Della, and Mrs. Cornelius Rettinger, all of Lykens, spent a day in their former home last week.
“Enders,” Lykens Standard, 4 June 1909.
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Charles E. Paul, of Marion, Indiana, special examiner Bureau of Pensions, spent the latter part of last week in town with his father, Daniel Paul, who has been ill for several weeks with cystitis.
Lykens Standard, 30 July 1909
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Daniel Paul, who had been laid up for several weeks with bladder trouble is about again.
Lykens Standard, 13 August 1909.
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Letter from Daniel Paul
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 14 October –
EDITORS STANDARD: — I will now write a few lines to let you know I am alive and where I am. Well I left Lykens on the 4th inst. And Harrisburg in the evening for the west; arrived at Constantine, Michigan, on the morning of the 6th; weather was fine; shook hands with friends several days; left on the 9th for South Bend, Indiana; remained there until the 13th; left for Chicago on Monday; it snowed some and was cold; ice formed one-fourth of an inch thick; and of course everything froze, but everything was ripe. I never saw such crops – the corn is immense, also potatoes, and as you go along on the cars and look right and left, you can see whole fields of pumpkins, watermelons, cantaloupes, and acres of cucumbers, tomatoes, and all kinds of vegetables going to waste. People are tired of them and the farmers have left them in the fields to decay. I just thought how glad you people in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, who on account of the drought were short of those vegetable, would be to have them. All fruit, except apples, is cheap here. Potatoes retail in Chicago at 65 cents per bushel. This is a great city – people are all in a hurry and it is a wonder that more are not killed at the street crossings where street cars and all kinds a vehicles go in every direction, beside the elevated railroad over head. Of course, it is the same in all large cities but as I have been in a great many cities throughout the United States it is nothing new to me. Chicago is scattered over a vast territory and they are building in every direction. The Gary Steel Works are a sight to see. They are supposed to be the biggest in the world. Although it is windy (this is called “The Windy City”) there is a dense cloud of black smoke over the city. All civilized nations of the world are represented here, and some that are not civilized. Beggars of every description accost you on the street for a penny, a nickel, or whatever you want to give them. Will close for the present, but write later from different parts of the country I visit. Am quite well at present. Good luck to all my friends.
DANIEL PAUL
Lykens Standard, 5 November 1909
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Daniel Paul returned Monday evening from his trip to Michigan and other points in the west.
Lykens Standard, 3 December 1909.
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News articles from Newspapers.com. This series will continue up through the death of Daniel Paul, which occurred in Lykens in 1911.
Special thanks to Debby Rabold, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for discovering these articles about her relative.
Daniel E. Artz – Militia Man of Gratz – Sudden Death, 1913
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on June 27, 2018
Readers of the “Gratz News” column of the Elizabethville Echo of 12 June 1913 were informed of the sudden and unexpected death of Daniel E. Artz. which occurred on 9 June 1913. Records establish his birth date and place as 28 March 1845, Hubley Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Simon Artz (1819-1908) and Elizabeth [Stein] Artz (1824-1896).
During the Civil War, Daniel Artz (also found in the records as Daniel Edward Emanuel Artz) answered the call for emergency militia service on 2 July 1863 by joining the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency Militia of 1863), Company B. as a Private. He served until the end of the emergency and was discharged on 26 August 1863. This was his only known Civil War service.
About 1863, Daniel Artz married Esther O. Umholtz, and with her there followed at least seven known children.
Daniel Artz is buried at the St. Paul (Artz) United Church of Christ Cemetery, Sacramento, Schuylkill County.
Additional information is sought about him, his military service, and his family. Comments should be added to this post.
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Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card from Pennsylvania Archives.
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