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Pvt. Nicholas Adams – 50th Pennsylvania Infantry

| February 23, 2011

Nicholas Adams (1843-1927) was born in Sacramento, Hubley Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.  Some sources give his birth date as 20 April 1843 while other sources give it in March.  He was the son of Nicholas Adams and Salome [Hoffa] Adams of Sacramento, who had twenty-one children, among them the sisters Hannah Adams and Ellen Adams, […]

Gettysburg: The Pennsylvania Memorial

| February 22, 2011

(Part 5 of an ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg). On 27 September 1910, Pennsylvanians who had fought at Gettysburg returned for the dedication of this memorial in their honor.  Built of Mt. Airy granite, it stands 110 feet high, weighs 3,840 tons, and can be seen from many parts of the battlefield.  It […]

Sons of Jacob Muench in the Civil War

| February 21, 2011

Jacob DeWald Muench (1805-1846) and Sarah “Sally” [Moyer] Muench (1814-1879) of the Lykens Valley area had five sons. An oft-repeated Muench family legend is that when the Civil War began, all five sons of Jacob Muench went to enlist in the Union Army.  But one son, Charles Edward Muench was sent home to help his […]

Knouff Family in the Civil War – John W. Knouff

| February 20, 2011

As the result of a correspondence from a blog reader, John W. Knouff was added to the Civil War Research Project.  Initially, only one John Knouff was include in the project list.  That John Knouff died in the war at Dabney’s Mills, Virginia, in 1865, as reported in the previous post.  The confusion of having […]

Knouff Family in the Civil War – Pennsylvania Records Error

| February 19, 2011

Tragically, two Pennsylvanians named Knouff did not survive the war.  David Knouff, who died of a condition contracted during the war and John Knouf, who was killed at Dabney’s Mill in Virgina, both served in the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, and both were from the area around Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  Unfortunately, their records […]