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February 2011 Posts

| March 5, 2011

A listing of the February 2011 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Two Years of Grim War The Decisive Battles The Cavalry Forts and Artillery January 2011 Posts Pennsylvania Dutch Foods of the Civil War Period The Navies Prisons and Hospitals Soldier Life and the Secret Service Poetry and Eloquence of Blue […]

Finding Civil War Veterans’ Graves

| March 1, 2011

One resources which is especially helpful in locating graves of Civil War soldiers is the web site “Find A Grave.” The site was created in 1995 by Jim Tipton, who states, “I created the Find A Grave website because I could not find an existing site that catered to my hobby of visiting the graves […]

January 2011 Posts

| February 5, 2011

A listing of the January 2011 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: New Year’s Day, 1861 Pennsylvania Dutch & the Civil War – Medicine National Civil War Museum – Walk of Valor Steve Maczuga’s Pennsylvania Civil War Project Alfred Mordecai’s Decision Hegins All Wars Memorial Pennsylvania African-American War Monument November 2010 Posts Pennsylvania […]

The Decisive Battles

| February 2, 2011

(Part 4 of 12).  Contents of Volume III of The Photographic History of the Civil War:  The Decisive Battles. The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War.  In a memorial to the war, a ten volume set of books was published entitled The Photographic History of the Civil War. […]

Dietrich Family – Immigrant Ancestors

| January 22, 2011

According to information published in Our Dietrich Lines (2007), a published work on the Dietrich family, there are two immigrant Dietrich ancestors who came to Pennsylvania and whose descendants settled in the Lykens Valley area.  The author, William Dietrich, carefully traces all the descendants of Michael Dietrich (his father’s line) and Lenhart Dietrich (his mother’s […]