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 George Buehler retired as a Rear Admiral from the United States Navy after a long career which spanned the Civil War period. Although he had no direct connection to Gratz or the Lykens Valley area, his brother Henry B. Buehler, served for a short time as a physician in Gratz before the Civil War […]
Last Sunday, the first part of the story of the Union League of Philadelphia was presented. Today, the final part is given. Future posts will present other patriotic organizations that were organized or grew in the days before, during and after the Civil War. In 1865, the new Union League House in Philadelphia was opened […]
Louis Prang, often credited with the invention of the Christmas card, was a Boston-based printer and publisher, who around 1886, embarked upon a project to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Prang hired famed military artist Thure de Thulstrup (1848-1930) to produce original water color paintings representing twelve different Civil […]
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