The official guide to Civil War sites in Georgia is entitled Crossroads of Conflict. It is sold by the Georgia Department of Economic Development and contains information on more than 350 sites serving as both a tour guide book and a history of Georgia during the Civil War. The pamphlet describing the book (pictured above) […]
Amos McColly died on 14 January 1910. The Elizabethville Echo published his obituary on 20 January 1910: Death of Amos McColly Amos McColly, son of Robert McColly and Catherine McColly, was born in Elizabethville, December 25, 1847, and died in the town of his birth on January 14, 1910, aged 62 years and 19 days. […]
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 […]
At the time of the Civil War, John H. Shammo served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company E. He was born at Halifax, 22 January 1839, the son of John Shammo (1786-1870) and Sarah [Reinhoehl] Shammo (1786-1870). According to information available from the Pennsylvania Archives, John H. Shammo enrolled at Halifax, […]
William Adams, who served in Luther’s Unassigned Drafted Militia, Company B, during the Civil War, died on 31 March 1914. The obituary of William Adams appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, 3 April 1914: ANOTHER VETERAN ANSWERS LAST ROLL CALLED William Adams, aged 72 years, a well known farmer and Civil War veteran, died […]
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