Norman Gasbarro | January 1, 2013
The Civil War Blog has reached an important milestone as we enter the new year – 150,000 visits. Thank you to all who made this possible – including the many readers who have made donations! In 2013, many of the posts will continue to feature stories about the individual soldiers who had some connection to […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 25, 2012
George Henry Durrie (1820-1863) was an American artist who was born in Hartford, Connecticut and was most famous for his rural winter scenes, some of which were made into popular lithographic prints by Currier and Ives of New York. Christmas cards have often featured these rural winter scenes. Although the paintings depicted below are of […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 30, 2012
Due to the weather emergency, new posts to The Civil War Blog will be postponed, and barring any unforeseen problems, the regular schedule of new, daily posts will resume on Friday, 2 November 2012. The post scheduled for Tuesday, 30 October 2012, “Elizabethville Civil War Veterans List,” will appear on Friday, 2 November 2012. The […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 7, 2012
A few days ago we were notified by Jim Weaver, the son of Ned Weaver, that his father passed away in California while visiting his family there and celebrating his 88th birthday. Funeral services were held this past Friday in Elizabethville. Ned’s work for the Gratz Historical Society will live on through his writings about […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 31, 2012
The largest, single monument honoring a Civil War-era personage in Pennsylvania, is not a stone temple on the Gettysburg battlefield but is a bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Named the “Walt Whitman Bridge” when it opened in 1957, it is today one of the largest suspension bridges on the east coast of the United […]
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