Norman Gasbarro | May 25, 2014
This post was originally presented on 20 May 2012. It is repeated here on the actual 100th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Millersburg Soldier Monument: ————————— MILLERSBURG HAD FINE MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES Millersburg, 31 May 1912 — Memorial Day was observed here yesterday. At 9:15 a.m. Kilpatrick Post, No. 212, G.A.R., assisted by Chief […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 24, 2014
In 2009, while doing research on the Civil War veteran named Erastus R. Foster who lived in Duncanon, Perry County, Pennsylvania, and in his late years in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, it was discovered that there were possibly two men of the same name who served in different regiments in the Civil War. Known at […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 23, 2014
Wilbur W. Grambling, a member of the 5th Florida Infantry, Company K (Confederate) arrived at Elmira Prison Camp on 24 July 1864, eight days after the arrival of the first survivors from the Great Shohola Train Wreck. Wilbur had been wounded on 6 May 1864 at the Wilderness, and because he had been sent to […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 22, 2014
Jacob E. Hassinger was born 4 January 1836 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Jeremiah Hassinger and Esther [Schmeltz] Hassinger. He was first married to Susanna Huber (or Hoover), who died in 1855. Susanna is buried at the St. John (Hill) Church Cemetery, near Berrysburg in Mifflin Township. Her grave marker is in German […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 21, 2014
In late 1902, readers of the Harrisburg Patriot could follow closely the demise and eventual death of Abner M. Pike, a Civil War veteran who had served in the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, and was a member of the Slocum G.A.R. Post at Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. An early statement appearing in the 17 […]
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