Norman Gasbarro | December 7, 2013
Stamps honoring the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln were issued by the United States Postal Service on 9 February 2009. The stamps were issued in four designs, each showing a scene from Lincoln’s life and career along with a larger portrait of Lincoln at either the left or right side of the […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 3, 2013
In a shoebox filled with old receipts, letters and other ephemera a rather beat-up Civil War commission for the rank of First Lieutenant was found – for none other than Daniel Chester, believed to be the namesake of the G.A.R. Post at Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The document was discovered in four large pieces and […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 30, 2013
Theodore Jury, born 9 March 1844, at Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was the first son of Samuel Jury and his wife Mary Ann [Gray] Jury. He is described as having gray eyes, light hair, light complexion and was five feet seven inches tall in 1864 at age 19 He was a tool dresser/blacksmith. He is […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 26, 2013
Capt. Jacob F. Hoffman was the brother of Medal of Honor recipient Thomas W. Hoffman. He was born in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania on 25 December 1841, and was one of six Hoffman brothers who served in the Civil War. For a time, he was a merchant in Pillow and Berrysburg in Dauphin County. […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 23, 2013
Recently, an e-mail was received from Jason Wilson, Historian at the Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee, informing The Civil War Blog of a new stand-alone site for Pennsylvania’s Civil War Flags. The site is more user-friendly and searchable than the previous web pages which were part of the Capitol Preservation Committee web site. Go directly to […]
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