Norman Gasbarro | December 10, 2012
The Nash Farm is located in the western part of Henry County, Georgia, 21 miles south of Atlanta, at 4361 Jonesboro Road. It is about five miles west of Exit 221 of I-75. During the Civil War, it was a Confederate campsite and was the location of the largest cavalry raid the state’s history – […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 9, 2012
The story of Daniel S. Feidt (1839-1907) appears in the Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County Pennsylvania, page 1094: Daniel S. Feidt, farmer, Millersburg, Pennsylvania, was born in Upper Paxton Township [Dauphin County], 19 January 1839. He is a son of Peter Feidt and Elizabeth [West] Feidt, who was a daughter of Daniel West and […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 8, 2012
On 28 April 1865 at Harrisburg, Peter E. Bowen enrolled in the 74th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, as a Private. There, he was mustered into service on 4 March 1865. According to information given at the time of enrollment, he was 20 years old (born about 1844), was 5′ 11″ tall, had light hair, blue […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 7, 2012
Lloyd F. A. Watts, the great-great-grandfather of Harrisburg’s current Mayor Linda D. Thompson, was a Civil War soldier who served in the 24th United States Colored Troops, Company B as a Sergeant. He was mustered into service at Camp William Penn near Philadelphia as a Corporal on 3 February 1865, promoted to Sergeant on 8 […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 6, 2012
The Stephen Spierberg film, Lincoln, is based somewhat on the Pulitizer Prize winning book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, However, the film focuses on only a small part of the book, mainly a few pages describing the last months of the Lincoln presidency, when Abraham Lincoln was […]
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