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Adam Hand – Tower City Area Veteran Moved to Illinois

One piece of information, a picture of a grave marker, has led to the solving of a mystery about a name found on the Tower City Veterans’ Memorial.  As a result of finding the picture, much more is now known about Adam Hand, a Civil War veteran from the Tower City area. In a 28 […]

February 2016 Posts

A listing of the February 2016 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Update on Inglis V. Fairbain of Tower City Philip C. Swab – A Grand Funeral! January 2016 Posts Jacob Swab & Jacob W. Swab – Two Different Elizabethville Area Veterans Update on Benjamin Hartzog, alias Walter Davis, of Donaldson Adam […]

Additions to Veterans’ List – H

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.  […]

Tower City, Porter and Rush Township Civil War Veterans – Part 12

The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.  It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]