Norman Gasbarro | May 4, 2014
Today’s post is a continuation of the series in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Great Shohola Train Wreck, which occurred on 15 July 1864. At the time it occurred, it was the worst recorded train accident in history. The official report of the transport of prisoners to Elmira Prison Camp from Point Lookout, […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 2, 2014
In 1912, Clay W. Holmes wrote and published The Elmira Prison Camp: A History of the Military Prison at Elmira, N.Y., July 6, 1864 to July 10, 1865. The book is available free from the Internet Archive (click on title and follow instructions at left of page to download). After the Great Shohola Train Wreck […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 1, 2014
Daniel Engle (or Engel) enrolled in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, as a Private, on 1 October 1861, at Donaldson, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and was mustered into service on the same day at Pottsville. He gave his age as 32, but other records indicate he was actually born in 1829 and was closer to […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 26, 2014
The blog post today is a continuation of the on-going series in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Great Shohola Train Wreck. To see all the posts in this series, click on ShoholaTrainWreck. A photocopy of a fourteen-page type-script purporting to be of a newspaper article from the 22 July 1864, Tri-States Union, a […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 24, 2014
Today’s post is the second installment of a series on The Great Shohola Train Wreck. Some of the early newspaper accounts from Pennsylvania newspapers are presented. On 15 July 1864, at about 2 P.M., a train carrying 833 Confederate prisoners of war and a contingent of Union guards, collided head-on with a 50-car coal train […]
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