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Pennsylvania Regiments at Petersburg and Richmond – Corps and Generals (Part 1 of 2)

In this, the first of two posts on the Pennsylvania regiments present during the Petersburg-Richmond Campaign, the “order of battle”, or the listing of how the Union Army was organized for battle, will begin.  The listing will conclude tomorrow.  Many men from the Lykens Valley area participated in the campaign around Richmond which was one […]

Pennsylvania Regiments at Gettysburg – Corps & Generals

(Part 2 of an on-going series of posts on the Battle of Gettysburg). In order to identify which of the 2000 Civil War veterans from the Lykens Valley area fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, we must first identify the Pennsylvania regiments that fought at Gettysburg. According to histories of the battle, the Union lineup […]