Norman Gasbarro | March 6, 2011
The Halifax area of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, consists of the area within the angle (“C’) of the triangular area of study for this Civil War Research Project (see portion of map below). Essentially, everything south of Millersburg (upper left on the insert map) and Elizabethville (upper right on the insert map) could be considered part […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 3, 2011
In the first post about the Find A Grave site, a statement was made about those contributors to the site who are very proactive about warning people who use the site about theft of their photographs. The understanding of these individual is that any one who uses a photograph of theirs, under any conditions and […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 2, 2011
In yesterday’s post, examples were given on how to use the Find A Grave web site to locate individual graves of Civil War soldiers. In the post today, examples will be given on how to locate cemeteries in the area covered by this Civil War Research Project. The Find A Grave site is an excellent […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 1, 2011
One resources which is especially helpful in locating graves of Civil War soldiers is the web site “Find A Grave.” The site was created in 1995 by Jim Tipton, who states, “I created the Find A Grave website because I could not find an existing site that catered to my hobby of visiting the graves […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 27, 2011
(Part 7 of an ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg). Around the base of the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg are a series of plaques which, by regiment and company, note the names of every soldier who was present at the Battle of Gettysburg. This post will present the plaque recognizing the men who served […]
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