Norman Gasbarro | April 12, 2016
On 5 April 1899, a story appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph telling of a “Mad Stone” that was first acquired from the Indians by a Pennsylvania Dutchman, Ferdinand Fred, in the mid-Eighteenth Century, and then was transported to Louden County, Virginia, near where the Battle of Ball’s Bluff was fought during the Civil War. The […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 12, 2013
Jesse Newlin served for eighteen years as Superintendent of Schools of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He began his service in 1863, during the Civil War, and concluded his service in 1881, when he was defeated for re-election by George Weiss of Schuylkill Haven. In 1864, he presented his first annual report on the condition and progress […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 25, 2013
A newly released book on the social history of a village at the center of the Mahantongo Valley, Rough and Ready, contains several sections useful for the study of Civil War veterans and their families, including the discovery of another Civil War veteran to be added to the Civil War Research Project – Henry B. […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 28, 2012
Harvey Monroe Miller, of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was a self-educated man who was an avid reader of poetry, biographies, Biblical history, and Pennsylvania German folklore and a prolific writer of and about the same. His primary business interests were in promoting trade in his hometown, including the luring of many businesses to the place […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 26, 2011
This is the second in a series of re-posts on the best and most popular blog entries on this Civil War Blog. Today’s re-post is actually a series of posts on the Pennsylvania Dutch that began at the end of the year 2010 and continued into continued into 2011. The first post in the series […]
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