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Civil War Blog Surpasses One Million Visitors
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on December 31, 2018
On the morning of 8 December 2018, The Civil War Blog surpassed one million views! The above bar graph indicates daily visits for a period of six weeks prior to reaching and exceeding the million mark.
The first post on The Civil War Blog was on 9 August 2010 and was entitled Gratz Family Civil War Stories. Regular posting began on 18 November 2010, and from then throughout the period of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, 2011-2015, an average of one post per day was published. Since 2015, an average of three new posts per week were published.
The Civil War Research Project has to date identified more than 3000 Civil War veterans from the Lykens Valley area of Pennsylvania and has collected more than 100,000 digital images of photographs and documents related to these veterans. Some of these image have been posted on the blog.
During the sesquicentennial period, two contributors provided regular posts: (1) Brian Tomlin; and (2) Jake Wynn. Brian continues to serve as web administrator for this blog while publishing own blog, Brian Beholds. Jake, since graduating from college, has his own blog at Wynning History.
From its inception the blog was recognized by Pennsylvania Civil War 150.
In 2013, the blog became a project of PAHistorian.
In 2018, the blog and its primary author were recognized with the Civil War Remembrance Award of the National Society of the Daughters of the Union. The award was given for Extraordinary Service and Commitment to the Education and Preservation of Civil War History. It was the first such award presented by the organization.
Congratulations on receiving the award from the National Society of the Daughters of the Union award this past year! You deserve it with all the great work you put into creating biographies of common PA Union soldiers! I’m glad you’ve had over a million views on your site as well! Also, don’t forget that some of us receive and read your blog posts by email and may not be counted in the official number of site visitors.
Thanks for inspiring.
Thank you for all your researching and sharing your knowledge. I look forward to your posts.
A well-earned award from the National Society of the Daughters of the Union for all of your research, and a huge congrats on surpassing a million visits to your site!! I probably account for at least 25 over the past few months as I’ve used your site extensively to fill in the gaps of my research regarding the 1864 Shohola Train Wreck in the writing of my historical novel. Thanks, Norman, for all you do to keep history alive!