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 last Friday and continuing intermittently for seven posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each […]
The Dauphin County Memorial to the Civil War is currently located in a park at 3rd Street and Division Streets near William Penn High School and near Italian Lake. It is now in the Uptown section of Harrisburg, north of what was once the entrance area to Camp Curtin. The monument stands about 110 feet […]
The memorial for Pennsylvania recipients of the Medal of Honor is located in Harrisburg, Dauphin County on the east side of the Capitol Building. A grove of trees (Soldiers and Sailors Grove) flanks the grounds where the name of each individual with the date and place of service is noted on a stone in the […]
This is a continuation of the history of the Soldiers’ Monument of Schuylkill County as originally given in the newspapers of the time and later by Joseph H. Zerbey in the History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. In order to give Gen. Horace Porter, a brilliant commander of the Civil War, opportunity to attend […]
This is a continuation of the history of the Soldiers’ Monument of Schuylkill County as given by Joseph H. Zerbey in his History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. Parade of Nine Divisions Associated with the dedicatory ceremonies was a parade which moved, promptly, at noon, over the following route. Up Centre Street to Minersville […]
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