Today’s post is the first of two with updated information on the Soldiers’ Circle at the Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Previous posts on this blog presented photographs of each of the burial sites in the circle, many with readable stones, but some with no stones or partially readable stones. For access to those […]
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the second circle, second quadrant, beginning with photograph 102. The photographs in this segment are numbered 102 through 110. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
This post attempts to identify those Civil War veterans who have been included in the Civil War Research Project for whom some record has been obtained of their residency in one of the many Old Soldiers’ Homes that were found throughout the country – operated by the federal government as well as the state government. For […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was updated 19 April 2012. In a series of post beginning today and continuing intermittently for eight posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each of […]
The post today looks at additional information discovered from research about the Lykens G.A.R. Monument. The criteria for inclusion of names on the monument is presented as well as some discussion of the work of Henry Keiser in finalizing plans for the monument’s erection. The last post describing the monument was presented as part of […]
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