;

Civil War Blog

A project of PA Historian

U.S. Census Returns – 1890 Veterans Schedules

| March 30, 2011

Ancestry.com provides an database index to the surviving 1890 Veterans Schedules which listed Union veterans who were heads of households or their widows.  The index will held find the exact schedule on which the information about the veteran is found.  The schedules are easily located through Ancestry.com and copies of them are available to Ancestry.com […]

83rd Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg

| March 29, 2011

(Part  14 of an ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg).  Around the base of the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg are a series of plaques which, by regiment and company, note the names of every soldier who was present at the Battle of Gettysburg.  This post will present the plaque recognizing the men who served […]

116th Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg

| March 28, 2011

(Part  13 of an ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg).  Around the base of the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg are a series of plaques which, by regiment and company, note the names of every soldier who was present at the Battle of Gettysburg.  This post will present the plaque recognizing the men who served […]

The Execution of Deserters and an All-Denominational Funeral

| March 27, 2011

On 29 August 1863, in front of about twenty-five thousand witnesses including the soldiers of the 5th Army Corps, five deserters were executed near Washington, D.C.  It was not unusual for deserters to be executed during the Civil War.  What was unusual about this execution was that one of the soldiers was of the Jewish […]

Harrisburg Transportation Center

| March 26, 2011

This post concludes the look at the main Harrisburg railroad station by presenting some photos showing how the station has been preserved and restored and is now utilized as the Harrisburg Transportation Center.  Previous posts on this subject were “Harrisburg – Crossroads of the Union” and “Harrisburg – Old Pennsylvania Railroad Station.”