Norman Gasbarro | August 16, 2018
A 1904 picture post card view from the Little Road Top of the Valley of Death across to the Wheat Field, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The statue of Gen. Warren is at the right. ______________________________ Image provided by Debby Rabold, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from a family collection.
Norman Gasbarro | August 15, 2018
Benjamin Bixler, Civil War veteran, died on 18 April 1901 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He is buried at St. Paul (Artz) Cemetery, Sacramento, Schuylkill County. His grave marker notes his service in Company G, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was a private in that regiment, and according to the Veterans’ File Card from the […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 14, 2018
Cyrus Bitterman was born 21 April 1837 in Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Bitterman (1813-1841) and Susanna [Bressler] Bitterman. On 18 November 1860, in Millersburg, Dauphin County, he married Louisa McCoy (1841-1892), daughter of William McCoy (1800-1894) and Eva [Bohner] McCoy (1810-1881). At the time of the Emergency of 1863, when the […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 13, 2018
During the Civil War, John S. Bottomstone served as a Private in the 36th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1863), Company C, and as a Private in the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H. In Emergency of 1863, when Lee’s Army was approaching Pennsylvania and the Battle of Gettysburg took place, John S. Bottomstone answered the call […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 12, 2018
From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 13 May 1922: Veteran Railroader Ends Active Life Peter Bowen, age 79 years, a retired Pennsylvania Railroad employee, died yesterday at his home Sunbury. He was in the railroad service 46 years. In 1865, after his military service was ended, he located at Millersburg, Pennsylvania, where he learned his trade of […]
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