Norman Gasbarro | March 8, 2017
The following illustrations were taken from Under the Maltese Cross – Antietam to Appomattox: The Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865, compiled by Charles F. McKenna, and published in Pittsburgh in 1910. Click on the title for a free download of this book, which is a history of the 155th Pennsylvania Infantry. All of the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 6, 2017
A listing of the February 2017 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Edward B. Martz – 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Henry A. Martz – Lifelong Railroad Man, Served in 127th Pennsylvania Infantry January 2017 Posts Harry M. Kieffer’s Recollections – Deciding to Go to War Harry M. Kieffer’s Recollections – Camp Curtin Harry […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 3, 2017
John Muchler died on 6 May 1915 and is buried in the Lykens Cemetery, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According to his grave marker, he served as a Private in Company F of the 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Civil War. Jacob Muchler was a German immigrant who was born on 28 December 1830. On several […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 1, 2017
Samuel Miller‘s name appears on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument as a man who served in the Civil War at the rank of Sergeant, but was not a member of the Heilner Post at that place. Samuel Miller was born in 1833 in Pennsylvania. During the Civil War, he served in the 26th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency […]
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