Norman Gasbarro | February 7, 2015
Scott Mingus Sr.,from York County, Pennsylvania, a fellow Civil War blogger, has greatly expanded on information made available here in a post entitled Some African Americans with Civil War Connections Who Died in 1910. One of those featured in that post was a barber of Harrisburg, Eli Gray. The post on Cannonball, by Scott Mingus […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 6, 2015
On 8 April 1914, the Harrisburg Patriot reported that Cassius Mars had died: WAR VETERAN DIES Cassius Mars, aged 71 years, a Civil War veteran, died Monday at his home, 1201 North Fourth Street, after a few days’ illness, of pneumonia. He was a charter member of David R. Stevens Post No. 520, Grand Army […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 5, 2015
A listing of the January 2015 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Monuments at Gettysburg – 84th Pennsylvania Infantry Obituary of Elias F. Garman, Born in Dauphin County Four Who Claimed Association with Jeff Davis Civil War Veteran Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg (Part 3) Monuments at Gettysburg – 88th Pennsylvania […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 4, 2015
Rev. George Shorter, who is buried at East Middletown Colored Cemetery (also known as the Old Negro Burying Ground), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, served in the 127th U.S. Colored Infantry, Company F, during the Civil War. He died on 2 October 1916 and his obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 5 October 1916: SHORTER FUNERAL […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 2, 2015
Dan Haller was one of the most colorful figures of post-Civil War Harrisburg. He was born a slave and after the Civil War came to Harrisburg to work. A total of nineteen articles about him were found in the Harrisburg Patriot, all of which are available through the on-line resources of the Free Library of […]
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