Jake Wynn | July 12, 2013
When doing research on topics for this blog, I came across a book that discussed the anthracite region of Pennsylvania in a way that I had never before seen. Author Grace Palladino’s 2006 book Another Civil War explores the role of the developing labor movement among coal miners of Northeastern Pennsylvania. She points out how this labor […]
Jake Wynn | July 11, 2013
The estimated 51,000 casualties at Gettysburg came in many different forms. Most were the wounded; tens of thousands of men injured by bullets, shells, or any number of other potentially fatal encounters faced in battle. Some were captured over the battle’s three day span. However, Gettysburg’s saddest cases involved those who were killed on the […]
Jake Wynn | July 10, 2013
This account of the battlefield in the days following the fight comes from the Daily Patriot and Union published July 11, 1863. “The battle field around the quiet town of Gettysburg will be an object of absorbing interest to many of our citizens for weeks to come. We visited the scene of the strife on Thursday […]
Jake Wynn | July 7, 2013
The Lykens Valley was mostly known for one major item in the years of the Civil War. Anthracite coal. This hard, stony coal burned hotter and longer than almost every other fuel available at the time, and the Lykens Valley anthracite was considered by many to be the best in the world. One article, published […]
Jake Wynn | July 6, 2013
Multiple stories have been passed down over a century and a half related to the Battle of Gettysburg. The stories go that citizens of Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia heard the sound of cannon fire from the battle in south-central Pennsylvania. These distances vary from dozens of miles to over a hundred miles distant from […]
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