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Jesse Ditty’s Recollections of Lovejoy Station

The National Tribune, 8 June 1899, posted a letter to the editor from Jesse Ditty, a Civil War veteran who is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  The National Tribune, published at Washington, D.C., was the official newspaper of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.). The Fight at Morris Ravine EDITOR […]

January 2019 Posts

A listing of the January 2019 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Benjamin Franklin Enterline – 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry December 2018 Posts 4 Lykens Printers Went to War – Only 1 Returned Obituary of Elias Etzweiler Death of Henry Culbert & Suicide of His Son Thomas B. Evans – Cavalryman – Died […]

Dr. Christian Lenker – Elizabethville Native Served in Ohio Regiments

Dr. Christian Lenker was found in the Biography and History of Schuylkill County, as a Civil War soldier who served in the 19th Ohio Infantry, Company H, as a Sergeant.  His connection to the Lykens Valley was clearly stated in the opening paragraph of the sketch.  It is obvious from that opening paragraph that he […]

Emanuel H. Umholtz – The Bell Tolls for Him

On 16 September 1904, Emanuel H. Umholtz died in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  His funeral was held a few days later at Simeon Church and he was buried in the church yard, now called Gratz Union Cemetery.  About two weeks earlier a new 649 pound bell, purchased from Buckeye Bell Foundry in Cincinnati, Ohio, had […]

The 150th Anniversary of Kilpatrick’s Raid at Nash Farm Battlefield

The 150th Anniversary of Kilpatrick’s Raid at Lovejoy Station and Nash Farm Battlefield, Hampton, Henry County, Georgia, will be recognized from 20 August through 24 August 2014. From the brochure advertising the event: The Friends of Nash Farm Battlefield and the Georgia Civil War Commission wish to invite you to the 150th Anniversary of Kilpatrick’s […]