An obituary of John Weiser appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, 9 March 1905. Mr. Weiser was a Civil War veteran from the area of Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, who served in the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry. The funeral of John Weiser was held at Pillow last Sunday morning, Rev. S. P. Brown officiating. A large number […]
The Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card shown above from the Pennsylvania Archives notes that a Josiah Ellinger, about 19 years old, enrolled at Philadelphia in Company I of the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry as a Private on 25 February 1862. However, he was not on the roll of the company at muster out. Another card (not shown) […]
A listing of the December 2017 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: John J. Tobias – Obituary of a Donaldson Native Death of Daniel J. Toy, Charter Member Millersburg G.A.R. November 2017 Posts Joshua A. Wald – 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Who Was Joseph Way of Lykens and Was He a Deserter? Obituary […]
In the 1890 Veterans’ Census of Weishample, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, a Ruben Frederick was enumerated as a solider who served in the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company I, as a Private. In compiling the original list of veterans from the Lykens Valley area, this veteran was incorrectly identified as Frederick Ruben. Of course this posed some […]
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the outer circle, third quadrant, beginning with photograph 42. The photographs in this segment are numbered 42 through 50. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
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