Norman Gasbarro | April 6, 2018
A listing of the March 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Men Named William Williams from the Lykens Valley February 2018 Posts Thaddeus S. Williamson – Served in Maryland Regiment, Buried at Killinger Obituary of Jacob Wilt – Dies from Swallowing Quail Bone Abel Wise – Surviving Son of Revolutionary War […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 4, 2018
A report on the attendance of more than a thousand persons for the first Lykens Valley Ku Klux Klan Field Day appeared in the Lykens Standard in 1926. This post is a continuation of the reporting on hate groups that were active in the Lykens Valley area in the years following the Civil War. It […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 2, 2018
The death of Conrad Zimmerman in Halifax, Dauphin County, on 22 October 1930, was widely reported in area newspapers because he was the last surviving member of a G.A.R. post that had disbanded. The portrait above was published in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 24 October 1930. What was not stated in any of the articles […]
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