Jake Wynn | January 7, 2014
A cool breeze nipped at Isaac Deitrich as he tramped home in the darkness. It was a little before midnight on the evening of December 5, 1900 when his late shift in the mines let out. Wiconisco and Lykens lay below him in the twilight, only dim shadows marking where each town began. He left […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 5, 2014
A listing of the December 2013 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Civil War Officer Commission – Daniel Chester – Discovery and Restoration of a Document November 2013 Posts Abraham Lincoln on Stamps – The Bicentennial Issues of 2009 Was William H. Harman a Civil War Soldier? Obituary of William H. Sites […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 1, 2014
The Civil War Research Project and the blog are now embarking on the last full calendar year of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. The biggest change evident in the past year is the departure from a project involving a single historical society in the Lykens Valley area to a project involving multiple historical societies, researchers, veterans’ […]
Jake Wynn | December 29, 2013
Jake Wynn‘s special project on the Gettysburg Campaign was featured on The Civil War Blog from 15 June 2013 through 15 July 2013. This post is an index to the series with direct links to each of the individual posts. Special Project from June 15 – July 15 “Danger is Imminent:” The Beginning of the […]
Jake Wynn | December 20, 2013
The men of the 96th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry struggled to keep warm on the evening of December 24, 1861. A frigid wind howled across the ridges and farms of Northern Virginia that Christmas Eve. Within their newly completed winter quarters, the hearty men of central and eastern Pennsylvania huddled next to blazing campfires, in a vain […]
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