Previously on this blog, a profile was published on Alexander McLaughlin (1841-1917), a veteran of the Civil War. At that time, his obituary from his local newspaper, the Elizabethville Echo, was not available to this Project. Here follows that obituary, from 26 July 1917. Death of Alex. McLaughlin Alexander McLaughlin, who was still in an […]
CARSONVILLE MERCHANT DIES OF APOPLEXY Elizabethville, 19 July 1917 —Alexander McLaughlin, a Civil War veteran who for many years conducted the general store and post office at Carsonville, died at his home here this afternoon at 4:30 p.m., following a stroke of paralysis. He was 76 years of age. He is survived by three sons, […]
A listing of the January 2015 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Monuments at Gettysburg – 84th Pennsylvania Infantry Obituary of Elias F. Garman, Born in Dauphin County Four Who Claimed Association with Jeff Davis Civil War Veteran Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg (Part 3) Monuments at Gettysburg – 88th Pennsylvania […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented. […]
During the Civil War, John C. Herman served in Company K, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, as a Private. He enrolled at York, York County, Pennsylvania, and was mustered into service in Harrisburg, 9 August 1862. By 28 December 1862, he was sick from “hemorrhoids and rheumatism in the back” and was sent to a hospital in […]
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