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Additions to Veterans’ List – B (Part 2 of 2)

| May 17, 2013

Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012.  In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented.  […]

Additions to Veterans’ List – B (Part 1 of 2)

| May 16, 2013

Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012.  In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented.  […]

Additions to Veterans’ List – A

| May 15, 2013

Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012.  In a series of posts beginning today and continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then […]

Daniel Bonawitz of Pine Grove – Taken Prisoner at Spotsylvania and Died

| May 12, 2013

Daniel Bonawitz, who died in the Civil War, was born on 11 April 1831 in the Tremont and Pine Grove area of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and was the son of George Bonawitz (1805-1860) and Mary [Koons] Bonawitz (1810-1871).  He was baptized at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Pine Grove on 22 May 1831.  In 1850, […]

Jonathan Brenner – Coal Miner of Tremont – Died at Fort Schuyler, New York

| May 9, 2013

Jonathan Brenner, who was mustered into service as a Private in the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, on 9 September 1861, died from wounds received at the Battle of Antietam,  17 September 1862.  He was a coal miner from Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, who was 28 years old at the time of his enrollment. As […]