Norman Gasbarro | 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. […]
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Tags: Gratz Borough, Lykens Borough, Millersburg, Pillow
Norman Gasbarro | 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. […]
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Tags: G.A.R., Halifax, Lykens
Norman Gasbarro | 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 […]
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Tags: Dalmatia, G.A.R., Gratz Borough, Pillow, Tower City, Tremont, Williamstown
Norman Gasbarro | 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, […]
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Tags: Gratz Borough, Lyhkens Borough, Pine Grove, Tremont, Wiconisco
Norman Gasbarro | 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 […]
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