Norman Gasbarro | August 25, 2012
Several readers of this blog have written requesting information on how to have changes made to the plaques on the Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monument. All the regimental plaques have previously been presented here on this blog and descendants of some of those whose names were missing from the plaques inquired as to how to get the […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 4, 2012
From an editorial that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 4 July 1864, the following excerpts are presented: The Day The Nation celebrates, to-day, the eighty-sixth anniversary of its birth, and although we had hoped also to commemorate at the same time the occupation of the city of Richmond by our troops, we can well […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 28, 2012
Harvey Monroe Miller, of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was a self-educated man who was an avid reader of poetry, biographies, Biblical history, and Pennsylvania German folklore and a prolific writer of and about the same. His primary business interests were in promoting trade in his hometown, including the luring of many businesses to the place […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 18, 2012
As pointed out in the post of 10 May 2012 (Pennsylvania Regimental Numbers – A Second Look), it is unfortunate that the militia companies that were in existence in local communities, when called into state service, were given the same regimental number designations as the state-raised infantry regiments that were sent into national service. There […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 10, 2012
As a result of some recent correspondence with a fellow researcher regarding the post that appeared here on this blog 9 February 2012 (See: Pennsylvania Regimental Designations – Naming and Numbering), it is appropriate to take a second look at some of the generalizations that were made in that post as well as the factual […]
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