On 10 August 1862, claiming to be 43 years old, Benjamin Goebel, a tailor living at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, enrolled in the 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, and was mustered into Company K, as a Private, at Harrisburg, six days later. No other information about him is given on the Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card (shown […]
Henry A. Martz was born 11 December 1831 in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Daniel Martz (1810-1844) and Hannah [Buffington] Martz (1812-1897). His name appears on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument as a Private who joined the Heilner Post after its organization. The obituary of Henry A. Martz appeared in the Lykens Standard, 12 […]
The following story is from the Harrisburg Patriot of 22 June 1903. It describes the suicide of Civil War veteran Benjamin Urich who served in the 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, as a Private. ——————————- BEN URICH DIED BY HIS OWN HAND Familiar Character Cut His Throat at Daylight Yesterday TORE WOUND WITH HIS HAND […]
The 27th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument at Gettysburg is located southeast of Gettysburg on East Cemetery Hill. The monument was dedicated in 1889 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and was the second monument to the regiment that was placed at Gettysburg. The above drawing appeared with an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 11 September 1889 on […]
In 1910, John Orth, an immigrant from Germany, was living in the household of his son, Jacob A. Orth, in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. At that time, John, a widower, was living on his Civil War pension, which was referred to in the census as “own income.” The son was a bookkeeper and the household […]
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