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John Bower – Tremont Soldier in the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry

| August 2, 2018

John Bower is buried at the Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio.  He died at the Soldiers’ Home in Dayton on 27 June 1909.  On his stone in the cemetery, his regiment and company are noted – 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A. On 19 August, a 23 year-old John Bower enrolled at Schuylkill County […]

June 2018 Posts

| July 6, 2018

A listing of the June 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Ku Klux Klan Briefs from the West Schuylkill Herald The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1903 Obituary of Nicholas Adams – 50th Pennsylvania Infantry The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1904 The Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania – More Sources of Information […]

May 2018 Posts

| July 4, 2018

A listing of the May 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Tower City Area Schools Close to Allow Student Attendance at Ku Klux Klan Picnic, 1925 April 2018 Posts The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1898 Hugo Black Confesses to Ku Klux Klan Membership, 1937 Obituary of William Young The Travels of […]

April 2018 Posts

| May 4, 2018

A listing of the April 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Conrad Zimmerman – Last G.A.R. Member of Halifax Ku Klux Klan Day at Elizabethville Attracts Huge Crowd, 1926 March 2018 Posts Two Militia Men Named John Wingert or One? Obituary of George N. Wilver Civil War Soldiers Buried at Lykens […]

Two Militia Men Named John Wingert or One?

| April 9, 2018

Were there two men named John Wingert in the 26th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1863), Company K, or only one? The card shown above from the Pennsylvania Archives names a John W. Wingert, age 26 (born about 1837), who enrolled in the militia regiment at Millersburg on 18 June 1863, was mustered in at Harrisburg […]