Norman Gasbarro | February 4, 2015
Rev. George Shorter, who is buried at East Middletown Colored Cemetery (also known as the Old Negro Burying Ground), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, served in the 127th U.S. Colored Infantry, Company F, during the Civil War. He died on 2 October 1916 and his obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 5 October 1916: SHORTER FUNERAL […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 2, 2015
Dan Haller was one of the most colorful figures of post-Civil War Harrisburg. He was born a slave and after the Civil War came to Harrisburg to work. A total of nineteen articles about him were found in the Harrisburg Patriot, all of which are available through the on-line resources of the Free Library of […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 30, 2015
From the pages of the Harrisburg Telegraph, 10 October 1910: WOMAN WHO SERVED AS WAR NURSE DIES AT POTTSTOWN Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 31 May 1919 — Mrs. Rebecca Lane [Pennypacker] Price, widow of Edwin Price, president and chaplain of the National Association of Civil War Nurses, died at her home in Pottstown, aged 81 years. Until […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 26, 2015
The obituary of bachelor Jacob Ritzman, found in the Harrisburg Patriot of 29 January 1909, reported that he had found dead along the road in Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He was a Civil War veteran having served in the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, as a Private. BOYS FOUND DEAD BODY Veteran of […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 23, 2015
An article that appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph on 19 June 1914 described Civil War veteran John Eisenhower placing a plaque on his grave marker in the Enola Cemetery,Cumberland County, Pennsylvania so that the correct facts about his military service would be known: Puts Plate on His Tombstone Telling Where He Fought Civil War Veteran […]
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