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James Magee, of Jackson township.
William Redick, a pioneer of Allegheny township.
William Harbison, Sr., of Middlesex township.
Thomas, James, Robert, Jr., and John Waddle, sons of Robert Waddle ; Joseph Porter, Joseph Kerr, and John Murtland, of Marion township. Thomas Waddle died at Buffalo, of "Black Rock Fever," while in the service.
Henry Evans, of Centre township.
Matthew McCollough and James Cornelius, son of Isaac M. Cornelius, of Worth township.
Robert Wilson, of Fairview township.
James and William Storey, sons of the pioneer, Alexander Storey. James
Respect fully yours James le, Mille
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died in the service, and, in 1816, Hannah Storey, his widow, was granted a pension of five dollars a month, so long as she should remain single.
John Hindman and James Wasson enlisted in 1813. When they reached New Castle, the news of Perry's and Harrison's victories led to their being mus- tered out.
Mathias Cypher, of Winfield township.
James McGill served with the Kentucky riflemen.
Mannasses McFadden survived the war fifty years, dying in 1862.
Thomas Bartley, Robert Martin. John Gibson and William llarbison, of Penn township.
William Graham and Morri- Covert of Cranberry township.
John Emery, of Concord township.
Platt Sutton, of Jackson township.
John Weir, of Buffalo township.
James Cratty, of Franklin township.
John Scott. of Lancaster township.
Henry Slator, Robert Murtland, Patrick McElroy, John Coyle and Henry Rausel, also served from Butler county.
Owing to the lapse of years it is no easy matter to secure a complete list of all who served from Butler county during the War of 1812. Many names not given in the foregoing records will be found in the biographical sketches devoted to the various townships. They include names not only of those who served from Butler county, but those who served from other counties, and whose descendants are now residents of this county.
A meeting of veterans of 1812, held at Butler, March 14, 1850, adopted a resolution asking Congress to place them upon the same footing, in regard to pensions, as the veterans of the Mexican War. William Beatty presided, with John Kennedy and John Gilchrist, vice-presidents, and John Sullivan, secretary. This meeting, with others held throughout the State. had the effect of winning for the veterans a small measure of recognition.
THE MEXICAN WAR.
No regular organization from Butler county participated in the Mexican War, On June 13, 1846, the Slippery Rock Guards, of Centre township, assembled at Lieut. John M. Brackney's house in West Sunbury. A motion of Capt. Samuel Loudon was adopted offering the services of the guards to the Governor as a rifle company. On February 13. 1547, the services of the Washington Cavalry, of Butler, were also tendered. Owing to the fact that the quota of Pennsylvania was already filled, these offers were not accepted.
Henry and Caspar Hartung, of Butler township, enlisted at Pittsburg and served through the war.
In July, 1848, Andrew G. Marshall, George L. Glenn and Richard Crozier, who served during the war, returned to Butler and were warmly welcomed by their old friends and neighbors,
On July 31, 1848, E. G. Smith, a returning soldier, en route to Crawford county, died on the Butler stage, and was buried at Butler with military honors. 15
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Lafayette Sullivan, aged twenty-two years, a sergeant in Company E, Eleventh United States Infantry, of Gen. James Shields' brigade, died in Janu - ary, 1848, in the city of Pueblo, Mexico.
James Bredin, ex-judge of this district, served on the United States ship Ohio, along the Mexican coast. He was present at Luspan and Vera Cruz.
James Reed, of Oakland township, served as government wagon maker. Lafayette Kerr, of Slippery Rock, died on the field of honor.
Charles Hoffman and Charles Gallagher gained military experiences that afterwards proved valuable to them in the War of the Rebellion.
Other men who came to Butler county in later days saw service in Scott's and Taylor's victorious armies.
PIONEER MILITIA ORGANIZATIONS.
The military spirit was kept alive after the close of the Revolutionary War, by the organization of militia in the various States, under laws providing for their arming, equipment and discipline. They were to be ready to protect the fron- tier against the Indians, or to take the field in the event of a foreign war or inva- sion by a foreign foe. Regular muster days were appointed, when the citizen soldiery of each district were required to meet, be exercised in the manual of arms and go through the evolutions usual to active service. These muster days were great events in the lives of the early settlers of Butler county. Care was thrown to the winds, and fun and merriment, hilarity and jollification ruled the hour. They usually closed with a banquet, the tables groaning beneath the abundance of good things to eat, with enough to drink, ready to hand, to enable prompt and hearty responses to be given to the long list of toasts which formed the principal part of the programme of each occasion. Although muster days have long since been things of the past, they are pleasantly remembered by the few now living, who, in their younger years participated in their duties and their pleasures. Since they ceased to be observed the country has passed through a civil war which has added to her citizenship a large body of veterans whose mili- tary experience was acquired on the hard fought fields of the South, and who in their regimental reunions, State and National encampments, foster and keep alive a patriotic and military spirit among the people.
At the time of the breaking out of the War of 1812, Butler county was included in the Sixteenth Militia district, commanded by Maj. Gen. David Mead, and her militia was called into service when the appearance of the British fleet on Lake Erie indicated a purpose on the part of the enemy to invade the State.
In 1814 a general reorganization of the militia of the State appears to have taken place. On August 1, of that year, John Duffy was commissioned captain of the Third company of the Twenty-fourth regiment by Governor Snyder. This commission is now in the possession of his nephew, Charles Duffy, of Butler.
In December, 1820, in pursuance of an order of Col. Robert Martin, the officers of the Twenty-fourth regiment met at Captain Beatty's house in Butler to attend to regimental affairs. Capt. Robt. Storey and Capt. James McKee were appointed to make a settlement of the quartermaster's accounts.
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On April 12, 1823, the Butler Light Infantry, commanded by Capt. Robert T. Lemmon, assembled at Butler " for training."
In obedience to an order of Adj. Abraham M. Neyman, the volunteer battal- ion commanded by Major Gibson, met in Butler. The " Centre Greens " met for training at John Timblin's house, on May 6, 1823. In compliance with an order of Major Jacob Mechling, the militia of the Second Battalion of the Twenty- fourth regiment assembled for training at Butler, May 29, 1823. The Butler Rifle Company met at Butler for training May 6, 1823, under Capt. William Beatty. Samuel Power, the brigade inspector of the First brigade, Sixteenth division, Pennsylvania Militia, was present on the 28th, 29th and 30th of May to witness the training at Butler. The " Butler Hornets" were from the Prospect neighborhood. The " Harmony Blues" were commanded in 1523 by Captain Goll; the " Connoquenessing Rangers," by Captain Davis, and the Rifle Company, by Captain Boston.
The " Bonny Brook Light Artillery," organized early in 1825, completed its organization, April 25, 1825, with Abraham Brinker, captain. At that time the "Butler Light Infantry " was commanded by Captain Lemmon, with William Criswell, orderly sergeant ; the " Butler Rifle Company " by Captain Beatty, with John Sheridan orderly sergeant, and the "Centre Greens " by Capt. John Glenn. These companies were leading attractions in the fetes of July 4, 1825, and joined in the thirteen cheers by which the toast-" Our Militia and Volunteers- the only safe bulwark of the Nation," was received at Neyman's, Brinker's and Goll's banquet tables on that day. The " Harmony Blues" drank to several toasts at Beam's tavern in Harmony ; the " Buffalo Rifle Company," at Philip Burtner's, and the " Connoquenessing Republicans" at Martin's.
The appointments of officers for the Twenty-fourth regiment, First brigade. Sixteenth division, Pennsylvania Militia, were made March 20, 1829, by Jacob Brinker, colonel of the command. The staff comprised James Thompson, adjutant ; J. L. Maxwell, quartermaster; John N. Purviance, seargeant-major; George Linn, surgeon; A. Spear and James Graham, assistant surgeons, The ten captains commis- sioned were Alexander Mc Bride. Jacob Doudhiser, Thomas Dodds, Johnson White, Samuel Dodds, George Fraizer, of the First battalion: and Alexander Craig, John Weir, Thomas Jolly, J. B. McConnell and George Wolf, of the Second battalion. The first and second lieutenants for the same companies were commissioned at that time, among whom were Eli Balph, Thomas Sullivan, James Sutton, Isaac Robb, James Glenn and Edward Kennedy. In May following, the First battalion under Major Graham assembled at Prospect for militia discipline; the Second battalion, under Major Sumney met at Butler ; and the volunteer battalion under Lieuten- ant-Colonel Ilagerty and that under Colonel Covert assembled at the same town. Colonel Goll's battalion of the One Hundred and Fourteenth regiment drilled at Harmony.
The Washington battalion, of which John Welsh was major, and Patrick Graham, adjutant, assembled for training at John Davis' house in Middlesex township, June 1, 1829.
The militia companies forming the First brigade of the Sixteenth division, in 1845, were the First Ritle battalion, meeting at Prospect; the Washington Vol-
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unteer battalion and the Lafayette Volunteer battalion, meeting at William Logan's; the McDonald Volunteer battalion, commanded by Major Brewster, meeting at " Shoemaker's old stand"; the Union Volunteer battalion, under Major Ilarris, meeting at Harrisville : the Second battalion of Second regiment (formerly the One Hundred and Fiftieth regiment ) meeting at Browington Cross Roads ; the Marion Volunteer battalion, commanded by Major Adams, meeting at North Washington ; the Second battalion of First (formerly Twenty- fourth) regiment, the First [battalion of the First, and the First battalion of the Second regiment, and the Jackson Volunteer battalion, meeting at Harmony. The Portersville Volunteer battalion; the German Guards under Captain Wiseman ; the De Kalb Greys under Captain Ziegler, and the Butler Cavalry under Captain Evans, met at Butler.
Maj. George W. Reed was connected with the militia of Butler for many years, first serving as captain and major. In 1835 he was elected brigade inspector for Butler and Beaver counties, and in 1842 for Butler county alone. In 1848 he was chosen brigadier-general, and subsequently was adjutant and major of the battalion.
The militia elections of June, 1854, resulted in the choice of James B. Don- aldson, of Zelienople, for the office of inspector of the First brigade, Nineteenth division ; Thomas Mclaughlin, brigadier-general, and George W. Reed, W. C. Adams, R. E. Graham, J. E. Cornelius and E. A. Helmbold, majors of the Butler, the Marion, the Jackson, the Prospect and the Lafayette battalions, respectively. The brigade, at that time, comprised the Saxonburg Light Infantry, the Butler Hornets, the De Kalb Greys, Middle Lancaster Guards, Connoquenessing Whites, Jackson Greys, Clearfield Blues, Centreville Artillery, German Guards, Repub- lican Blues, Portersville Guards, Marion Guards, Invincible Guards, Washington Cavalry, Venango Blues, Middlesex Guards and the Slippery Rock Light Infantry.
In May and June, 1858, the Butler Scott Guards organized under the new militia law.
The DeKalb Greys (new ) was organized in June, 1859, with Samuel Coll, cap- tain ; Joseph B. Mechling and Prof. A. J. Rebstock, lieutenants; J. A. Sed- wick, John Lawall, John R. Denny and Benjamin W. Bredin, sergeants ; Sam- uel F. McBride, Hugh W. McBride, William Bowers and Enoch Fields, cor- porals ; John Cress and George Bowers, ensigns, and William W. Glenn, band leader. The companies voting for brigade inspector, June 6, 1859, were the Con- noquenessing Whites, Prospect Guards, True Americans, Washington Rifles, Portersville Guards, Sunbury Blues, Jackson Greys. Venango Blues, Marion Guards, American Guards, Fairview Guards, Centreville Artillery and Saxon- burg Light Infantry. In September, 1859, a new company, known as the Butler Guards was organized.
These organizations served to keep alive the military spirit among the peo- ple of Butler county until the Rebellion, when they were merged into the volun- teer commands that went forth in defense of the Union. The echoes of the war had scarcely died away when the organization of militia companies was resumed. On September, 2, 1865, the " Butler Greys" was organized with the following
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officers : Captain, W. A. Lowry; lieutenants, W. E. Moore and Thomas F. Parker, and sergeant, J. T. Shirley.
Following such independent commands came the National Guard of Penn- sylvania. In 1873 Company E, Fifteenth regiment, was organized at Butler and is still in existence. W. T. Mechling, lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, is a resident of Butler. Company E did service at Homestead, and is recognized as one of the most efficient commands in the regiment.
The act of April 13, 1887, required the annual enrollment of every able- bodied citizen of good reputation, between the ages of twenty and forty-five years, outside the National Guard, who are subject to military duty if called upon by the State. This enrollment gives Butler county a militia army of about 8,000 mnen.
CHAPTER XVIII.
WAR OF THE REBELLION.
INTRODUCTION-THE FIRING ON SUMTER-THE NEWS IN BUTLER -- A GREAT UNION MEETING THE FRESH CALL FOR TROOPS -- BUTLER COUNTY'S PROMPT RESPONSE- COMPANIES FURNISHED DURING THE WAR-THE REGIMENTS IN WHICH THEY SERVED-SOLDIERS WHO SERVED IN MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS-SURGEONS- HOW THOSE AT HOME SUSTAINED THE MEN IN THE FIELD-THE DRAFTS OF 1863 AND 1864-ENLISTMENTS ENCOURAGED BY BOUNTIES-RELIEF TAX-THE BAALAM ASSOCIATION-PITTSBURG SANITARY FAIR-BUTLER COUNTY'S CONTRI- BUTIONS-LEE'S SURRENDER-JUBILEE MEETING-LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION- MEMORIAL, MEETING-SOLDIERS' MONUMENTS-CONCLUSION.
W HEN the thirteen colonies, having wrested their independence from England, after a struggle lasting seven years, took their place among the nations of the earth as a free republic, under the name of the United States of America, there entered into the very beginning of the national life, in the form of African slavery, an element of discord, destined, after engendering bitter controversy in the press, on the stump, in the halls of Congress, and even in the pulpit itself, to bring on the greatest civil war in the world's history.
The South saw in the rapid growth of an anti-slavery sentiment in the North, in the stubborn resistance to the spread of slavery in the territories, and in the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, a menace to its favorite institution. The result was the passage of ordinances of secession by the slave- holding states, and of the announcement of their intention to withdraw from the Union, peaceably if possible, forcibly, if necessary.
The first overt act evincing a determination to carry this purpose into effect by force of arms, was the flring on the "Star of the West." January 9, 1861, in
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Charleston harbor, by the batteries of Morris Island and Fort Moultrie, an account of which appeared in the Butler newspapers of January 16, 1861. In the same issue appeared the " Appeal to the People," setting forth the dangers threatening the Union and the inability of the committee of thirteen to agree upon an adjustment of the differences between the North and the South.
The months of anxiety which followed, culminated in the attack, bombard- ment and surrender of Fort Sumter, and in bringing the people of the North face to face with the fact that the South had determined to fight her way out of the Union. Even then, however, it was difficult to believe that a general upris- ing of the Southern people would take place, or that the firing upon Fort Sumter was the beginning of one of the greatest wars of modern times. This feeling found voice in the public press, and in a general expression of a belief that a settlement of the differences of the two sections would be brought about without further bloodshed. In closing an editorial in the issue of April 17, 1861, commenting on the surrender of Fort Sumter, the Butler Herald said:
The intelligence that hostilities had commenced filled everybody with the deepest regret. It is to be hoped that the whole matter will be settled without loss of life and that peace will be restored.
This hope was soon dispelled, and the people of Butler county realized. when the first call for volunteers was made by President Lincoln, that the struggle for the preservation of the Union had been transferred from the arena of debate to the field of battle.
A great Union meeting was held at the court-house on April IS, which was presided over by James Gilmore Campbell, United States Marshal, with John H. Negley, George Miller, Herman J. Berg and Samuel G. Purvis, vice-presi- dents ; Patrick Kelly, S. P. Irvin, William Haslett, Edwin Lyon, John C. Coll and James Balph, secretaries. Party spirit was forgotten, stirring speeches were made, and resolutions adopted pledging Butler to send her last man to the front, if necessary, to preserve the Union. A central committee of superintendence was appointed, consisting of James Bredin, John M. Sullivan, Henry C. Heine- man, William Campbell, Herman J. Berg and R. C. McAboy; and also a finance committee made up of L. Z. Mitchell, C. E. Anderson, John M. Thompson and Walter L. Graham.
Under President Lincoln's call for 75,000 men, Butler county's quota was one company. The response was so prompt that within a few hours after the reception of the news, the ranks of the company were full and it was ready to proceed to the front. This company known as the " Butler County Blues " was officered as follows: John N. Purviance, captain ; Alexander Gillespie, first lieutenant : John G. Vandyke, second lieutenant ; John B. McQuistion, first ser- geant ; Edwin Lyon, second sergeant ; Oliver C. Redic, third sergeant; Samuel Muckel, fourth sergeant : Thomas Campbell, Jr., first corporal ; Andrew Carns. second corporal : John P. Orr, third corporal, and Joseph B. Mechling, fourth corporal.
After reaching Harrisburg the company was mustered in as Company H, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the same time Captain Purviance was made lieutenant colonel of the regiment, and Jacob Ziegler elected captain of the
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company. Captain Ziegler resigned on May 11, and First Lieutenant Alexander Gillespie was elected captain to fill the vacancy thus created. After serving under General Patterson in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg and Shepherdstown, the regiment was mustered out of service August 6, 1861, by First Lieutenant John B. Johnston, of the Third United States Cavalry.
It soon became evident that the Rebellion had gathered too much force to be put down with 75,000 men, and President Lincoln issued a second call, this time for 200,000 men for three years' service. Under the first call, Capt. Samuel Loudon had recruited a company known as the "Dickson Guards," at West Sun- bury, and Capt. William Stewart one at Evans City, and had them awaiting orders. They were properly officered and entered the service June 10, 1861. becoming Companies C and D, of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserve. They were assigned to duty in the Army of the Potomac, serving in the First and Fifth Army corps.
In August, 1861, Capt. Thomas Mclaughlin recruited a company, in which a large number of those who had served in Company H, Thirteenth regiment, re-enlisted. It was mustered in September 1, 1861, a- Company Il, One Ifun- dred and Second Pennsylvania Volunteers, and assigned to duty in the old Sixth Army corps.
In the same month also, Capt. James E. Cornelius recruited a company in the northwestern and western part of the county. It entered the service as Company C, One Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteers. This regiment, by reason of its being largely made up of descendants of the "Round Heads" of the English Revolution and of Scotch-Irish Seceders and Covenanters, was known as the "Round Head" regiment.
In September, 1861, the fifth company to respond from Butler county was recruited from around Butler borough, Harrisville, and other parts of the county, by Capt. William S. Jack. It was mustered into the service in October, 1861, as Company II, Seventy-Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, which was or- ganized into a brigade with the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-ninth regiments under command of Gen. James S. Negley. This command served in the western army as a part of the Fourteenth Army corps.
The last companies organized in Butler county, in 1861, were recruited in October by Capt. Samuel Martin and Capt. William Fielding. The former was recruited in the southern and central, and the latter in the northern part of the county. They were mustered in as Companies E and I of the One Hun- dred and Third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.
In 1862 the reverses met by the Union forces made it necessary for Presi- dent Lincoln to issue another call for troops. Notwithstanding the large num- ber that had already gone to the front from among her people. Butler county promptly and patriotically responded to this call. In July and August of that year four companies were raised in the county by Captains C. E. Anderson. 1. G. Riddle, William O. Breckenridge and Edwin Lyon. These companies became Companies C, F, G and K, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Vol- unteers, and were assigned to duty in the Fifth Army corps. About the same time Capt. G. W. Hays, in the southern part of the county ; Capt. Henry Pil-
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low, in the vicinity of Prospect, and Capt. Allen Wilson, in the northern part of the county, each recruited a company. These became Companies D. F. and G, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers. They were assigned to duty in the old First Army corps.
In 1862, also, Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth regiment drafted militia, was raised in Butler county. It was commanded by Capt. John G. Bippus.
The ninth company to be raised in this county in 1862 was recruited by Capt. William II. Tibbles. It was raised in the southeastern part of the county and assigned to duty as Company L, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. It became a part of General Averill's command.
The raising, within a little more than a year and a half, of sixteen compan- ies of men for service at the front, had taken from Butler county nearly all the younger men capable of bearing arms. She had proved her patriotism by a cheer- ful response to every call made, and stood ready to make still greater sacrifices, if needed, to save the I'nion. When Lee invaded Maryland in August and Sep- tember, 1862, and threatened to make this State the basis of his operations, the necessity for still greater efforts, not only to check his advance, but drive him from the State, arose. A call for emergency men was issued and under it Capt. James Gihnore Campbell raised a company in Butler county, the tenth to be raised during the war. This was Company G, Fourteenth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Emergency men.
Another company, commanded by Capt. W. R. Hutchison, also responded at the same time, thus putting eleven companies to Butler county's credit in 1862. This was Company C. Eighteenth Pennsylvania Militia.
When Lee came north again in 1863, another emergency arose, which was met in Butler county by sending three companies of militia to the front. These were Company F. Fifty-sixth regiment Pennsylvania Militia, commanded by Capt. W. R. Hutchison : Company G and Company I. Fifty-eighth Pennsyl- vania Militia, the first commanded by Capt. E. L. Gillespie, and the latter by Capt. W. M. Clark. These companies volunteered for ninety days.
In 1864, Batteries A and B, Sixth Pennsylvania Artillery, commanded by Capt. W. R. Hutchison and Capt. G. L. Braun, enlisted for one year.
The last company to go from Butler county was raised in the early part of 1865 by Capt. Robert I. Boggs. It was enlisted for one year and was mustered into the service as Company E, Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
In addition to these twenty-five companies recruited and sent into the service from Butler county, a large munber of men from the county served in other com- mands. They were to be found in the ranks of the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth and Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry regiments ; the Twenty-third, Sixty-first, Sixty- second, Sixty-third, Eighty-third, One Hundred and First, One Hundred and Fourth, One Hundred and Fifth, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth, One Hundred and Ninetieth, One Hundred and Ninety-first, and Two Hundred and Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and in the Fifth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery.
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