Norman Gasbarro | February 2, 2011
(Part 4 of 12). Contents of Volume III of The Photographic History of the Civil War: The Decisive Battles. The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. In a memorial to the war, a ten volume set of books was published entitled The Photographic History of the Civil War. […]
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Norman Gasbarro | February 1, 2011
(Part 3 of 12). Contents of Volume II of The Photographic History of the Civil War: Two Years of Grim War. (also part 4 of ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg). The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. In a memorial to the war, a ten volume […]
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Norman Gasbarro | January 31, 2011
(Part 2 of 12). Contents of Volume I of The Photographic History of the Civil War: The Opening Battles The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. In a memorial to the war, a ten volume set of books was published entitled The Photographic History of the Civil War. […]
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Norman Gasbarro | January 30, 2011
Daniel Henry, whose father and uncles took part in the war for independence, was born in Reading in the last quarter of the18th century. When Pottsville was laid out, he as a carpenter, moved there, and on 9 January 1825, his son, William Henry was born. William Henry‘s mother died when he was eleven years […]
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Norman Gasbarro | January 29, 2011
Nearly all of the men who served in the Civil War from the Lykens Valley area served in military units as soldiers. But a few did serve as sailors or marines. Finding information on the sailors and marines is much more difficult than finding information on soldiers who served in Pennsylvania Civil War regiments, because they […]
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