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Monuments at Gettysburg – 88th Pennsylvania Infantry

The 88th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument at Gettysburg is located northwest of the town of Gettysburg on Doubleday Avenue.  It was dedicated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1889.  The drawing of the monument pictured above is from an article that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 11 September 1889. For more information about this monument […]

88th Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg

(Part 65 of an ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg).  Around the base of the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg are a series of plaques which, by regiment and company, note the names of every soldier who was present at the Battle of Gettysburg.  This post will present the plaque recognizing the men who served […]

Dr. John Boyer Beshler of Berrysburg – Assistant Surgeon in Civil War

  Dr. John Boyer Beshler died at Oakdale, Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 8 April 1869, and was buried at the Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin County. He was the son of Dr. Henry C. Beshler (1806-1888) and Mary [Boyer] Beshler (1814-1894) and was born 8 September 1839. The Lykens Register from 1869, reprinted in 1907, […]

January 2015 Posts

A listing of the January 2015 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Monuments at Gettysburg – 84th Pennsylvania Infantry Obituary of Elias F. Garman, Born in Dauphin County Four Who Claimed Association with Jeff Davis Civil War Veteran Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg (Part 3) Monuments at Gettysburg – 88th Pennsylvania […]

Additions to Veterans’ List – R

Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012.  In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented.  […]