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Update on Joseph Ehrhart of Tower City

| December 7, 2018

Previously on this blog, Joseph Ehrhart, also known as Joseph Erhart was briefly profiled as part of a series on veterans of Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township: JOSEPH ERHART (1836-1900) is also found as Joseph Ehrhart.  He served in the 208th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, as a Private.  In the 1890 Census, he […]

November 2018 Posts

| December 5, 2018

A listing of the November 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Luther S. Pike – White Supremacist, 1866 October 2018 Posts Samuel M. Cogley – Jefferson Township Man Dies in Indiana Relief Corps Has No Funds for Flowers, 1932 Tower City – Memorial Day 1931 Last Surviving Mahanoy City Civil War […]

William DeHaven Attends Lincoln’s First Inaugral

| December 3, 2018

  On the occasion of the inauguration of William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C., 4 March 1909, Civil War veteran William H. DeHaven, reflected on the first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln on 4 March 1861, in a letter to the Harrisburg Telegraph: Tells of Lincoln’s First inauguration Inauguration day this morning brought back recollections to […]