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Civil War Blog

A project of PA Historian

Abraham Lincoln in Dauphin County

| March 4, 2011

One hundred fifty years ago, on his way from his home in Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C. for his March 4th inauguration, President-elect Abraham Lincoln made a stop in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Then, as now, Harrisburg was both the county seat and the state capital. The plan was for Lincoln to remain in Harrisburg […]

The Fair Use Doctrine and Pictures Found on Find A Grave

| March 3, 2011

In the first post about the Find A Grave site, a statement was made about those contributors to the site who are very proactive about warning people who use the site about theft of their photographs.  The understanding of these individual is that any one who uses a photograph of theirs, under any conditions and […]

Finding Cemeteries in the Lykens Valley Area

| March 2, 2011

In yesterday’s post, examples were given on how to use the Find A Grave web site to locate individual graves of Civil War soldiers.  In the post today, examples will be given on how to locate cemeteries in the area covered by this Civil War Research Project.  The Find A Grave site is an excellent […]

Finding Civil War Veterans’ Graves

| March 1, 2011

One resources which is especially helpful in locating graves of Civil War soldiers is the web site “Find A Grave.” The site was created in 1995 by Jim Tipton, who states, “I created the Find A Grave website because I could not find an existing site that catered to my hobby of visiting the graves […]