Brian Tomlin | April 30, 2014
April 10. In the spring of 1864, writer Nathaniel Hawthorne’s health was failing. His publisher William Ticknor accompanied Hawthorne on a trip from Boston where they both lived to try to restore Hawthorne’s health. Ticknor caught what he assumed was a cold before leaving Boston and Hawthorne later wrote home that his friend had eaten bad […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 29, 2014
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the second circle, fourth quadrant, beginning with photograph 129. The photographs in this segment are numbered 129 through 137. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 28, 2014
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the second circle, third quadrant, beginning with photograph 120. The photographs in this segment are numbered 120 through 128. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 27, 2014
On 12 September 1861, a 25 year-old John Coffield enrolled in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. On 23 September, he was mustered into Company H as a Private. The record indicates that he died on 11 November 1864, at Richmond, Virginia. His name was found in a list of Schuylkill County […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 26, 2014
The blog post today is a continuation of the on-going series in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Great Shohola Train Wreck. To see all the posts in this series, click on ShoholaTrainWreck. A photocopy of a fourteen-page type-script purporting to be of a newspaper article from the 22 July 1864, Tri-States Union, a […]
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