Norman Gasbarro | December 14, 2018
Previously on this blog, it was reported that when Conrad Zimmerman died on 22 October 1930, he was the last surviving member of the disbanded Halifax G.A.R. Post. It was also reported that although Conrad Zimmerman was not married, for the last 30 years of his life, he lived with an African American woman, Roxie […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 12, 2018
The Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card shown above from the Pennsylvania Archives notes that a Josiah Ellinger, about 19 years old, enrolled at Philadelphia in Company I of the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry as a Private on 25 February 1862. However, he was not on the roll of the company at muster out. Another card (not shown) […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 10, 2018
On 15 September 1962, at Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Eckel answered the emergency call by enrolling in the 17th Pennsylvania Infantry Militia, Company H, as a Private. When the emergency ended, he was discharged on 26 September 1862. At the time he was about 36 years old. Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card above is from […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 7, 2018
Previously on this blog, Joseph Ehrhart, also known as Joseph Erhart was briefly profiled as part of a series on veterans of Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township: JOSEPH ERHART (1836-1900) is also found as Joseph Ehrhart. He served in the 208th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, as a Private. In the 1890 Census, he […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 3, 2018
On the occasion of the inauguration of William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C., 4 March 1909, Civil War veteran William H. DeHaven, reflected on the first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln on 4 March 1861, in a letter to the Harrisburg Telegraph: Tells of Lincoln’s First inauguration Inauguration day this morning brought back recollections to […]
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