Norman Gasbarro | May 11, 2012
Mrs. Elizabeth Christine Buehler, wife of the late Dr. Henry Buehler, died at the home of her daughter in Baltimore on Monday morning aged 68 years. The remains were buried at her former home, Harrisburg, on Wednesday. From: Lykens Standard, 12 August 1904. The Harrisburg Patriot, 8 August 1904, gave a more detailed description in […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 10, 2012
As a result of some recent correspondence with a fellow researcher regarding the post that appeared here on this blog 9 February 2012 (See: Pennsylvania Regimental Designations – Naming and Numbering), it is appropriate to take a second look at some of the generalizations that were made in that post as well as the factual […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 9, 2012
In March 1865, Pres. Abraham Lincoln signed an act of Congress approving the establishment of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Initially, three branch homes were established: in Togus, Maine; in Dayton, Ohio; and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Eventually, eleven national homes were constructed. Veterans who qualified under the voluntary admission policy only had to […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 8, 2012
Joseph Louden, who was the subject of a previous post here entitled, Death of Joseph Louden in Soldiers’ Home in Dayton, Ohio, is buried in the Dayton National Cemetery, Montgomery County, Dayton, Ohio. In the previous post, it was mentioned that no picture was available of his grave marker. A reader of this blog, MSgt. […]
Brian Tomlin | May 7, 2012
President Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 15, 1862, referring to it several times as the “people’s department.” To understand that comment, we have to remember that about 25% of the U.S. population lived on, worked on or owned farms in the 1860s (compared with less than 1% today). Lincoln wanted to […]
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