A book entitled, The Civil War: A Collection of U.S. Commemorative Stamps, was published in 1995 in cooperation with the U. S. Postal Service, as a companion to the issuance of a sheetlet of 20 stamps recognizing sixteen individuals and four events of the Civil War. The Civil War sheetlet was designed by Mark Hess. […]
William C. Armor (1842-1911), historian and bookseller of Harrisburg, played an important role in the Civil War in one of the first regiments recruited into service, the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry, in which he served as an officer. The story of his life appeared in the Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, published in 1896. William […]
The Battle of Shiloh, fought 6 and 7 April 1862 was the bloodiest two-day battle in U.S. history up to that time. Fought in the Western Theater in southwestern Tennessee, it pitted the Union Army of the Tennessee commanded by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant against the confederate Army of the Mississippi commanded by Generals […]
Jacob DeWald Muench (1805-1846) and Sarah “Sally” [Moyer] Muench (1814-1879) of the Lykens Valley area had five sons. An oft-repeated Muench family legend is that when the Civil War began, all five sons of Jacob Muench went to enlist in the Union Army. But one son, Charles Edward Muench was sent home to help his […]
(Part 11 of 12). Contents of Volume X of The Photographic History of the Civil War: Armies and Leaders. The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. In a memorial to the war, a ten volume set of books was published entitled The Photographic History of the Civil War. […]
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