Norman Gasbarro | July 10, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 9, 2012
Herbert E. Stover‘s Pennsylvania: A History of Our State was a textbook in use in the schools in the Lykens Valley area in 1945 and for some years afterward. The well-used copy belonging to the Gratz Historical Society is shown above and now resides in a large collection of texts that were in use in […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 8, 2012
The post today continues a look at three men with connections to Tremont, Schuylkill County, who served in the Civil War in the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry: Jacob Shade (1833-1864); William Henry Hiney (1840-1864); and Emanuel Eckle (1843-1864) – all of whom died as a result of the war. This post is also a continuation of […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 7, 2012
The post today begins a look at three men, with connections to Tremont, Schuylkill County, who served in the Civil War in the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry: Jacob Shade (1833-1864); William Henry Hiney (1840-1864); and Emanuel Eckle (1843-1864) – all of whom died as a result of the war. This post is also a continuation of […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 6, 2012
One of the best sources for statistics about the Civil War was published in 1883 and titled, Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States. The book was compiled by Frederick Phisterer, a former army Captain and published by Charles Scribner’s Sons and was a supplementary volume to Campaigns of the Civil War. There […]
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