Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-30
NEGLEY,
G. A. r. VETERAN.
ANSWERS CALL
Pioneer Resident of City to
Be Buried Wednesday
Afternoon.
JOINED LEW WALLACE

The funeral Of David .. Negley, ST, a
pioneer resident Of indianapolis, and
captain in the Civil War, who died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Eva Fred,
, 2330 Adams street, Sunday night, will be
( held at the Fred home at > o'clock
Weduesda. afternoon. TIE funeral will
be in the charge of Center Lodge of Mas
ter Masons anu the BrightwoOL post Of
the Grand Army of the Republic.
Captain Negley was born Sept. %, 1885,
on a farm near Millersville, northeast Of
indianapolis, when the State was in its
pioneer days. He was a son Of the Rev.
George II. Negley, an early Methodist
minister, and grandson of Peter Negley,
who settled at Millersyille in 1919, and
was descended from one Of the earliest
Swiss families who emigrated into Penn
sylyania in the early part Of the seven
teenth century.
JOINS COMPANY
OF COLONEL WALLACE.
His early life was spent in the agri-
cultural pursuits Of his community, and
when the Civil War began he enlisted in
the 18th Indiana Volunteer Infantry then
being recruited by Col. Lew Wallace.
While the regiment was seeing service In
Western Kentucky, he spent most Of the
time on detached duty doing secret serv-
ice work in and around Paducah, where
he took part in many hazardous expedi-
tons into the enemy territory.
He was with the Lew Valance COM
mand in the battles OF Fl D0nelson,
and later in the second days fight at
Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh.
In the latter battle he was wounded
seriously twice and lay on the field
twcnty-four hours before being removed
to one of the hospital boats in the Ten
r1a fas7
Indiana soldiers brought home by an
expedition sent for that purpose by
Governor Morton, and as soon as he was
recovered sufficiently to go about, he be-
gan the recruiting Of a company Of in
fantry for further service IN the war.
COMPANY Is
ASSIGNED TO DUTY.
When his company was completed Il
was assigned to duty as Company Of
the 124th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, IN
der Col. James S. Burgess, and went into
the Atlanta campaign under Gen. Pap"
Thomas. His regiment and company did
its full quota Of service in that cam
paign, and until the battle at Franklin.
Tenn, where it became necessary 10 have
4 company detailed to guard the ford
over n river near Franklin while the re-
mainder Of the Federal Army was falling
back TO a place of more security. His
orders were to held the ford until re-
Iieved, although he and all his men
knew there was no hope of being re-
lieved before capture. The orders were
carried ont TO the extent that they found
themselves surrounded by the Confede
rate army, with Nothing TO do but sur
render.
He was sent with his company to An
4 ha In
charge was a Captain Wirz, later hanged
by the Federal Government for his
atrocities; and in that prison he spent
four or FIVE months.
The war then drawing TO a close, he
was exchanged, with his entire company,
and was ordered to Helena, Ark, where
one Of the exchange camps was located.
BY a lucky order. coming st the last min
ute. which directed him to take charge
Of another squadron Of men and march
them across the country, he escaped Icing
with his company on the Inflated steamer
Sultana. which blew up. Caslen, with
Federal soldiers from Southern prisons,
and in which hundreds were drowned.
RETURNS TO
RESUME FARMING.
After his exchange. he came back to his
farm, where he had left a wife, formerly
Hiss Margaret ann HIueDEduus anu
again began the life Of q farmer and pro-
Queer of livestock, which he followed I'M
til his age precluded general activities.
His close personal acquaintance and
great admiration for Gen. lew Wallace
continued through the life Of that famous
general and author. and he was a fire.
qucnt visitor TO the Wallace home at
Charlottesville.
Fer several years his health had been
failing and the end came in a painless
death at the home Of one Of his daughters,
Mrs. Eva Fred, where he recently has
been taken.
After he death Of his first wife, the
mother of his six children. he married a
Mrs. Ann NewhouSe, who died two years
ago. He is survived by six children,
Harry Z. Negley, Mrs. Eva Fred. Homer
H Negley, Mrs. Elizabeth Tyre and Mrs.
Olive May Wright. all of Marion County,
,D4 Enorva II Nau1av Of