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Honorable Discharges – 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I – Part 9

| December 19, 2011

Today, the blog post  again continues to feature members of the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, who served the full term of nine months and received honorable discharges on 5 August 1863.  The research results presented here are based on preliminary data gathering on each of the members of the company and searches for Pension […]

Obituary of John Adam Klinger

| December 12, 2011

The obituary of John Adam Klinger appeared in the Lykens Standard on 9 Jan 1903: LYKENS.– John A. Klinger, a former resident of this place, died of asthma at his home in Minersville last week and was buried on Sunday.  He was married to Amanda, daughter of the late Jonas Hoffman and wife of this […]

Prisons and Hospitals

| February 8, 2011

(Part 8 of 12).  Contents of Volume VII of The Photographic History of the Civil War:  Prisons and Hospitals. The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War.  In a memorial to the war, a ten volume set of books was published entitled The Photographic History of the Civil War. […]