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4 Lykens Printers Went to War – Only 1 Returned

| January 7, 2019

In the Lykens Standard of 25 April 1902, the editors began in serial form a lengthy article that had appeared in 1865 in the Lykens Valley Miner, which was then published by Samuel B. Coles and G. Washington Fenn.  The article was entitled, Recollections of 40 Years: Regarding the LykensValley Coal Mines and Vicinity Adjacent, […]

December 2018 Posts

| January 4, 2019

A listing of the December 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: William DeHaven Attends Lincoln’s First Inaugral November 2018 Posts Update on Joseph Ehrhart of Tower City Aaron Eckel Dies Same Day as Brother The Mystery of Josiah Ellinger Conrad Zimmerman – White Supremacist, 1866 Henry Enders – 198th Pennsylvania Infantry […]

Benjamin Franklin Enterline – 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry

| January 2, 2019

Benjamin Franklin Enterline was born 28 November 1847 in Pennsylvania, the son of John Koppenhaver Enterline (1815-1872) and Lovina [Groff] Enterline (1817-1898). The father was a farmer in Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and by 1860, Benjamin Enterline, was working as a farm laborer. According to information in his Civil War records, on 3 November […]