A recent discovery of a book entitled Wisdom, Vision and Diplomacy: Speakers of the Pennsylvania House has produced the name of yet another Civil War veteran from the Lykens Valley area, that of John E. Faunce who was born in Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 29 October 1840. According to the book, Faunce, who served as […]
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. […]
A listing of the June 2012 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Union Cemetery, Pillow (Part 2) Andrew J. Williams, Killed in Coal Mines Three Draftees from Troy in the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry Civil War Photography Two Substitutes Join the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry May 2012 Posts Reports from the Antietam Battlefield Lewis […]
Other than John E. Faunce, who was featured in a post here on Sunday, the following Pennsylvania Speakers of the House have Civil War connections. Page references are to biographical sketches that are found in Wisdom, Vision and Diplomacy: Speakers of the Pennsylvania House, by Jeane Hearn Schmedlen and published in 1998 by the Pennsylvania […]
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