BUTLER COUNTY NEWS ARTICLES
SERIES I
From the Souvenir History and Centennial Program, Prospect Pennsylvania 1825 -1925:
August, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-five
LOVE OF COUNTY pg. 51; True patriotism isn't always found in military noise and enthusiasm. The people of Prospect and vicinity have ever been ready to go forward to defend "Old Glory," and have done so in scores of battlefields in all the Nation's wars. When soldiers, money and supplies are needed, Prospect never falters for a moment. Her soldiers were with Meade at Gettysburg, with Burnsides at Fredericksburg, with McClellan at Antietam, with Hooker at Chancellorsville, with Sherman at Atlanta with Sheridan at Cedar Creek, with Grant at Vicksburg, Petersburg, and Appomatox, and with Pershing in France. Only three Civil War boys remain in the village - J. O. Dodds, J. C. Miller and Wm. Morrow. The military companies and the "Big Muster Days" back in the forties and fifties kept the military spirit alive, and the town responded to Lincoln's call for troops in 1861. Captains Pillow, Riddle, Fisher and Scott led companies from this place. When the State National Guard was organized, many young men joined the company in Butler. Alex. Borland, a Civil War veteran, lived in Prospect, and was a military enthusiast. He belonged to Capt. Mechling's company, and drilled the Prospect boys. Alex. had so many guardsmen here that he and the squad were known as "Borland's Army". They were considered the best drilled "bunch" in the whole company. Corporal Rame Weigle was hurt during the company's visit to Philadelphia in 1882, and his ankle will always be an indicator of an approaching storm. We won't tell you who kept the dirtiest gun in the bunch. The town has now two boys in camp at Mt. Gretna. As the people are busy pursuing the arts of peace, and are showing their patriotism in ways no military it isn't necessary to elaborate on this subject.
[*Note Alexander M. Boreland: Enlisted on 8/12/1862 as a Private. On 8/12/1862 he mustered into "G" Co. PA 134th Infantry He was Mustered Out on 5/26/1863 at Harrisburg, PA.
On 2/29/1864 he mustered into "G" Co. PA 4th Cavalry He was Mustered Out on 7/1/1865 at Lynchburg, VA] [Resource: Historical Data Systems, Inc. PO Box 35 Duxbury, MA 02331]
J. O. Dodds (James O.) On 8/12/1862 he mustered into "G" Co. PA 134th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 5/26/1863 at Harrisburg, PA.: Source: Historical Data Systems, Inc.: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865
J. C. Miller (John Conrad Miller) Residence Prospect, Butler Co. PA;
Enlisted on 8/22/1862 as a Private. On 8/22/1862 he mustered into "K" Co. PA 134th Infantry
He was discharged for disability on 3/2/1863, born in 1840 in Butler, PA died in 1930 Buried: Crown Hill Cem. Franklin Twp, Butler Co, PA (Wife: Sara Jane Shaner. 7 children) History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 - Butler County, PA Cemetery Inventory- Research by Nancy Dobbins (c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
William Morrow: Private Co F, Pa 137th Regiment Mustered in Aug. 28, 1862, Mustered out with company June 1 1863. Source: Bates, History of the Pa. Volunteers 1861-1865 Vol 4, pg. 345. 
photo submitted by Lynn K. Lepley; cemetery TBD.
MISCELLANEOUS Pg. 53;
Two Prospect boys starved to death in Andersonville Prison. * Milton Myers died July 13, 1864, grave no. 3,259; Charles Lepley died September 11, 1864, grave No. 8,405. You notice that over 5,000 soldiers died in the "hell hole" in two months. Our esteemed citizen, Milton Myers Langhurst, was named after a grandfather whom he never knew. Mr. Lepley wrote a very touching poem while in prison.
[* note:
Milton Myers Residence Butler County PA; 33 years old. Enlisted on 12/7/1861 as a Private.
On 12/7/1861 he mustered into "E" Co. PA 103rd Infantry He died of disease as POW on 7/13/1864 at Andersonville, GA He was listed as: * POW 4/20/1864 Plymouth, NC Other Information: born in Muddy Creek Twp, Butler Co, PA Buried: Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville, GA Gravesite: #3,250
(Parents: Daniel Myers, Annie Smith)
Roll of Honor Information: Date of Death listed as 7/13/1864. He was buried at: Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville, GA (Grave #3250)
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 A History of the 103rd Pennsylvania Volunteers
Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the Union
History of Butler County, PA (Published 1895)
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HAZEL DELL SCHOOL IN THE CIVIL WAR
Nine Families Furnished Twenty Volunteers-Four Made Supreme Sacrifice.
One of the communities in Butler County that made a famous record in the Civil War was Hazel Dell school district, Lancaster Township. Twenty young men from this school went to fight for freedom. All of them made good records as soldiers.
Frank Myers of Prospect has prepared a sketch of the soldiers who went out from Hazel Dell in which he relates that all of them were Republicans and that the following families were represented by one or more sons:
The family of George Bieghley, three: family of George Myers, two; family of George Kniess, three family of Jacob Neeley, three; family of William Hays, one; family of Adam Rosebaugh, one; family of Henry Rosebaugh, one and a son in law; and Henry Leply and Jerry Bales.
The following is the roster of the volunteers;
Henry Bieghley, George Bieghley, Isaac Bieghley, Jacob Kniess, Lewis Kniess, David Kniess, Peter Neeley, Jacob Neeley, Robert Neeley, Martin Hays, Frank A. Hays, Lemuel Hayes, Joshua Hays, Samuel Rosebough, John Rosebaugh, Dan Ruby, Solomon Myers, Jerry Bales and Henry Lepley.
This is the record:
Samuel Myers was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks and died.
Lewis Kniess died in camp.
Jerry Bales was killed in battle.
Henry Lepley was killed in battle
Samuel Rosebaugh was wounded in the hand.
Only three of the original twenty are now living: Solomon Myers, Isaac Bieghley and David Kniess.
Nine of these heroes sleep in Stone Church Cemetery. They are Samuel Myers, Lewis Kniess, Robert Neeley, John Milison, Jacob Kniess, George Bieghley, Jacob Neeley, Peter Neeley, Joacob Rhoads.
My great grandfather came to this country and fought in the War of the Revolution. My grandfather fought in the War of 1812. My father was dead at the time of the Civil War, but I have a son in this war. The old Hazel Dell school sent only two boys to the present war: Hilbert D. Myers and Conrad Bieghley.
This article was submitted by D. Barkley & M. A. Myers who are descendants of the Myers Family. Samuel Myers was in CO H. Pa 102nd Regt., he died in June, 1862.
Lewis Kniess ( Co H. Pa 102nd), David Kniess, and Henry Lepley are ancestors of Lynn K. Lepley
Article 153 from Vol. 4 1919-1924 Prospect Memories May 02, 1922
Louis Keefer, who helped to build a barn for Samuel McCullough in 1869, and who is a relative of Mrs. J. L. Henshaw of Prospect, requests that the names of the boys that went out in Capt. Pillow's company, August 15, 1862, be published.
"They left Prospect in wagons on the evening of said date. They were R. M. Andreson (Anderson), George Beighley; Aaron Beighley; J. ? Dodds; Isaiah English; Harrison Garvey; John Heckert; Henry Lepley; Greer McCandless; Robert Moore; David Dodds; Daniel Keefer; William Stewart; Robert Young; Peter Neeley; John D. Roth, deceased; Newton White; Milton J. White; Lewis Keefer and Robert L. Gallagher, who died of measles and was buried at Windmill Point, Va., January 25, 1863. Lewis Keefer's address is Petrolia, R. D. 1. The boys had supper at Harmony, where other men joined the men from Prospect".
Article transcribed and submitted by Lynn K. Lepley
137th REGIMENT INFANTRY brief history:
Organized at Harrisburg August 25, 1862, and ordered to Washington, D. C. Attached to 1st brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to December, 1862. Provisional Brigade, Aquia Creek, Va., Patrick’s Command Army of the Potomac, to January, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863.
SERVICE.—Maryland Campaign September, 1862. Sugar Loaf Mountain September 10-11. Crampton’s Gap
September 14. Antietam
September 17. Duty in Maryland to November. In Defences of Washington, D. C., till December, and at Aquia Creek, Va., till
January, 1863. Burnside’s 2nd Campaign, “Mud March,” January 20-24, 1863. Duty at Belle Plains till April. Chancellorsville
Campaign April 27– May 6. Operations at Pollock’s Mill Creek April 29-May 2. Ordered to Harrisburg, Pa. Mustered out
June 1, 1863. Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 58 Enlisted men by disease. Total 59.
Resource: Compendium Of The War Of The Rebellion, Frederick H. Dyer Vol. III pg 1615/ Bates Vol IV pg 344-45.
Notes on the Soldiers in this article: They all mustered into Company F of the Pa. 137th Regiment: Harrison Garvey is buried in the Emmanuel Lutheran Church Graveyard, Prospect Pa.: Robert L. Gallagher died on the transport "John Tucker", January 25, 1863 and was buried in Windmill Point, Va., Jan. 25, 1863.: Milton White was discharged on Surgeon's Certificate Dec. 24, 1862.: John D. Roth was listed as deserted on 12-2-1862 and returned 4-1-1863. Notes: submitted by Lynn K. Lepley
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