Norman Gasbarro | January 28, 2011
(Part 1 of 12). The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. As a memorial to the war, a ten volume set of books was published entitled The Photographic History of the Civil War. This series attempted to do what no other books had previously done – to bring […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 27, 2011
In locating interesting stories about the Civil War, often the best ones are found in obvious places. The one told below was located in an anthology entitled Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends & Folklore, edited by B. A. Botkin, and published in 1960. It comes from a Confederate Gen. John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), and […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 26, 2011
Charlemagne Tower (1809-1889) was the founder of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. A biography of him appears in A Centennial History of Tower City and Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. As noted in the previous post, his name was omitted from the list of Civil War veterans although the biography states he did have Civil […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 25, 2011
In 1968, Tower City and Porter Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, celebrated its centennial. The “History Book Committee” was chaired by Howard G. Stutzman whose strong qualifications for the job were given in a brief biography on one of the book’s opening pages: attorney, historian, civil leader, churchman, public speaker, political leader, World War II […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 24, 2011
Pillow, the northernmost borough in Dauphin County, was incorporated in 1864 as “Uniontown.” Priot to this, the original town, Schneidershtettle [Snydertown], was named after John Snyder, a land developer, but early on, the local residents began referring to it as Uniontown. When a post office was created in 1847, to avoid confusion with another Pennsylvania […]
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