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January 2019 Posts

| March 4, 2019

A listing of the January 2019 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Benjamin Franklin Enterline – 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry December 2018 Posts 4 Lykens Printers Went to War – Only 1 Returned Obituary of Elias Etzweiler Death of Henry Culbert & Suicide of His Son Thomas B. Evans – Cavalryman – Died […]

George Farber – Fired Last Shot of Civil War

| February 8, 2019

George Farber, who was born in Prussia, Germany, about 20 May 1840, was living in Petersburg, Lackawanna, County, Pennsylvania, at the time of the Civil War, when he enrolled there in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 17 September 1861. Like his father, he was a carpenter. After traveling to Harrisburg to be mustered into service […]

December 2018 Posts

| January 4, 2019

A listing of the December 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: William DeHaven Attends Lincoln’s First Inaugral November 2018 Posts Update on Joseph Ehrhart of Tower City Aaron Eckel Dies Same Day as Brother The Mystery of Josiah Ellinger Conrad Zimmerman – White Supremacist, 1866 Henry Enders – 198th Pennsylvania Infantry […]

Benjamin Franklin Enterline – 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry

| January 2, 2019

Benjamin Franklin Enterline was born 28 November 1847 in Pennsylvania, the son of John Koppenhaver Enterline (1815-1872) and Lovina [Groff] Enterline (1817-1898). The father was a farmer in Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and by 1860, Benjamin Enterline, was working as a farm laborer. According to information in his Civil War records, on 3 November […]

Civil War Blog Surpasses One Million Visitors

| December 31, 2018

On the morning of 8 December 2018, The Civil War Blog surpassed one million views!  The above bar graph indicates daily visits for a period of six weeks prior to reaching and exceeding the million mark. The first post on The Civil War Blog was on 9 August 2010 and was entitled Gratz Family Civil […]