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Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield – Battery 8

| March 23, 2013

Today’s blog post continues a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman occurred.  All parts of the series can be accessed by clicking on the series title here, Touring the Petersburg National […]

Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield – Battery 5 and the Dictator

| March 22, 2013

Today’s blog post continues a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman.  All parts of the series can be accessed by clicking on the series title here, Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield.  […]

Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield – The Visitor Center

| March 21, 2013

Today’s blog post begins a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman occurred.  Recent photographs taken at the battlefield are interspersed with the official, interpretative statements made at the various […]

A Searchable Index to the Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg

| March 6, 2013

The Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg, previously featured in many posts here on this blog, now has a searchable name index.  That index is provided by Steve Maczuga on his web site, Pennsylvanians in the Civil War. Searching is easy.  Just go to the web site, enter the last name of the soldier in the box, […]

Best of 2012 – Tower City, Porter and Rush Township Civil War Veterans

| December 31, 2012

The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.  It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]