The two monuments to the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry at Gettysburg are located southeast of the town of Gettysburg, close to each other on the eastern side of Baltimore Pike. One of the monuments is pictured above and can be seen on Stephen Recker’s Virtual Gettysburg Web Site which has more information about the monuments and […]
The 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument at Gettysburg is located south of the town of Gettysburg on Hancock Avenue close to the High Water Mark. A picture of the monument as shown above can be seen on Stephen Recker’s Virtual Gettysburg Web Site which has more information about the monument and the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry. A […]
The following obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph, 8 March 1917: MRS. CLARA HARPER DIES Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, 8 March 1917 — Mrs. Clara Harper, widow of Frank Harper, a Civil War veteran, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clayton B. Holtzman, in West Main Street, in West Main Street, on Tuesday, after a […]
On the 9 March 1919, the Leavenworth Post of Leavenworth, Kansas, reported on a new admission to the National Soldiers’ Home there – that of John J. Swab, indicating that he was transferred from Battle Mountain Sanitarium and stating that he had been in “nearly every other National Military Home in the United States, but […]
A listing of the June 2015 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Monuments at Gettysburg – 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry The Yeager Family in the Civil War (Part 6) Obituaries of Civil War Era Women, 1909 Mary Kilraine of Williamstown – Civil War Laundress Monuments at Gettysburg – 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company B […]
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