Jake Wynn | July 12, 2013
When doing research on topics for this blog, I came across a book that discussed the anthracite region of Pennsylvania in a way that I had never before seen. Author Grace Palladino’s 2006 book Another Civil War explores the role of the developing labor movement among coal miners of Northeastern Pennsylvania. She points out how this labor […]
Jake Wynn | July 11, 2013
The estimated 51,000 casualties at Gettysburg came in many different forms. Most were the wounded; tens of thousands of men injured by bullets, shells, or any number of other potentially fatal encounters faced in battle. Some were captured over the battle’s three day span. However, Gettysburg’s saddest cases involved those who were killed on the […]
Jake Wynn | July 10, 2013
This account of the battlefield in the days following the fight comes from the Daily Patriot and Union published July 11, 1863. “The battle field around the quiet town of Gettysburg will be an object of absorbing interest to many of our citizens for weeks to come. We visited the scene of the strife on Thursday […]
Jake Wynn | July 9, 2013
-Evening Telegraph, July 11, 1863 Serious Accident.—From the Sunbury American we learn that an accident occurred on the Northern Central Railroad on Monday afternoon, near Port Trevorton. A cow sprang on the track suddenly, from behind a wood pile. The result was, the locomotive was run off the track, the mail and baggage car […]
Jake Wynn | July 8, 2013
By the time of the Civil War, railroads had become a driving force in the country’s economy, specifically in the northern states. Fortunes were built on the back of the new rail systems that popped up. One of these railroads built in the years just before the Civil War broke out was the Northern Central. […]
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