Norman Gasbarro | October 31, 2016
There is a handy book for those who frequently discuss the Civil War and want to make sure that they are correctly pronouncing the names of people, places and battles associated with it. Civil War Spoken Here, by Robert David Quigley, was published by C. W. Historicals of Collingswood, New Jersey, in 1993. As the […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 28, 2016
Today’s post features an 1895 history of a Civil War regiment formed of men including Henry M. Kieffer, who was living in Killinger, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, in 1860, and was the son of Dr. Ephraim Kieffer, a pastor of St. David’s Reformed Church in that place during most of the years of the […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 26, 2016
From the Mount Carmel Item (Pennsylvania), 17 February 1910: FISHER ESCAPES GALLOWS: CONFESSES TO THE CRIME JURY RENDERED SECOND DEGREE VERDICT AT 8:50 LAST NIGHT– JUDGE SAVIDGE DECLARES FISHER GUILTY, SENTENCES HIM TO TWENTY YEARS IN JAIL — MURDERER CONFESSED TO SHERIFF ON WAY BACK TO JAIL Henry Fisher, the foulest degenerate that ever drew […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 24, 2016
The photograph shown above is of the railroad station at Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania. On his trip to Gettysburg on 18 November 1863, Abraham Lincoln had to change trains there. There has been a great deal of speculation as to whether the man standing on the platform between the two trains is Lincoln. In his book, […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 21, 2016
John Peters was born in Ulster County, New York, but when the time came to serve in the Civil War, he was in Philadelphia, and it was there that he enrolled in the 115th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, as a Sergeant, on 9 April 1862. Supposedly, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant on 26 January […]
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