Norman Gasbarro | June 6, 2016
A listing of the May 2016 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links. David Muir of Foster Township – His Killing in 1865 Attributed to Molly Maguires America’s Oldest Theatre is in Philadelphia Henry Hoover – Cavalryman and Publisher April 2016 Posts Jacob Zerby of Elizabethville – Cavalryman and Blacksmith John M. Hughes […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 5, 2016
A listing of the April 2016 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links. March 2016 Posts Civil War Railroad Structures of Elizabethville Selected Items from the Pension Files of Mrs. Daniel Williard Henry H. Weaver – Died in War at Jeffersonville, Indiana Gen. George McClellan’s Philadelphia Home – Historical Marker Civil War Railroad […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 14, 2016
Cornelius A. Hochlander is named on the Lykens G.A.R. Memorial as a Private who joined the Heilner Post in Lykens after it was organized. Hochlander, who is sometimes found in the records as Hocklander, was born in November 1844, the son of George Hochlander, a shoemaker, and Mary Adaline Hochlander. The family is found in […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 1, 2016
A listing of the March 2016 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links. Click on any title to go directly to the post. ———————————– Featured this month were two posts describing (1) how the By-Laws of the Gratz Historical Society have been completely ignored resulting in an illegal takeover of this Pennsylvania non-profit […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 30, 2016
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 February 1906: CARS CRUSH SHANTY: KILL WAR VETERAN Special to the Inquirer SHAMOKIN, Pennsylvania, 19 February 1906 — While sitting in a shanty near the Reading Railway, near here, to-day, Charles Henning, an aged war veteran and well known local resident, met a horible death. Two freight cars left the […]
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