The 35th Pennsylvania Infantry (6th Pennsylvania Reserves) Monument at Gettysburg is located south of Gettysburg at the Wheatfield. It was dedicated in 1890, after the extensive number of battlefield monument dedications that took place in 1889 on the 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The view of the monument pictured above is from Steve […]
John Chubb, a Civil War veteran, accidentally died on 17 April 1870, after falling into the Pennsylvania Canal. From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 19 April 1870: MAN DROWNED AT MIDDLETOWN — Last evening, between eight and nine o’clock, a man named John Chubb, aged about forty-five years, originally from the neighborhood of Halifax, this county, who, […]
Abraham Campbell was born about 9 May 1835 in Northumberland County. During the Civil War he served in the 6th Pennsylvania Reserves [35th Pennsylvania Infantry], Company B, as a Private from 10 October 1861 through discharge on a Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability on 26 October 1862. The record shows that he applied for an invalid […]
“When cannons roared and treason’s flag Defiantly did wave, He rushed to arms, he gave his life His bleeding land to save.” The above poem appears on the grave marker of John S. Trego at the Stove Valley (Zion) Cemetery, Hickory Corners, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Also on the stone is the following information: In Memory […]
The obituary of Levi C. Patrick appeared in the Lebanon Semi-Weekly of 13 September 1915: Levi C. Ressler, Civil War Veteran Died at Tower City Levi C. Ressler died at his home at Tower City at 3:40 o’clock Thursday morning , after being ill since last Sunday night. He was a veteran of the Civil […]
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