Norman Gasbarro | May 10, 2014
Jake Wynn, a regular contributor to this blog, launched his own blog on 22 February 2014. It is entitled Wynning History: The Explorations of a Young Historian – Interpreting the Past with a Youthful Voice. Jake can be followed regularly on Twitter or by subscribing directly to his blog. He has just completed his junior […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 6, 2014
A listing of the April 2014 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Harrisburg Burning – Yet Again The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – Photographs 69 – 77 and Path March 2014 Posts The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – Photographs 80 – 92 Robert M. Palmer – Lincoln’s Minister to Argentina The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 6, 2014
A listing of the March 2014 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: The Charter of the Kilpatrick G.A.R. Post of Millersburg February 2014 Posts The Susquehanna River Flood of March 1865 (Part 1 of 2) The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – Photographs 6 -14 The Susquehanna River Flood of March 1865 (Part 2 […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 25, 2014
A major suspicious fire which started at the corner of Third Street and Strawberry Alley in Harrisburg on 15 June 1865 destroyed a good portion of a city block. Two weeks later, another suspicious fire broke out and was described in a brief article which appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 30 June 1865: Another […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 20, 2014
The skies of Harrisburg lit up on the morning of 15 June 1865. A fire had broken out in coach-maker J. R. Fleming‘s two-story building at Third Street and Strawberry Alley. It quickly spread to several other buildings. The investigation quickly concluded that the fire was set by arsonists. The Philadelphia Inquirer of 16 June […]
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