Norman Gasbarro | February 9, 2015
Rev. James A. Stokes was previously profiled here on this blog on 17 September 2014 in a post entitled, Rev. James A. Stokes – African American with the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry? Additional information has been located about him, including a picture, in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 10 February 1916. On the occasion of his 75th […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 6, 2015
On 8 April 1914, the Harrisburg Patriot reported that Cassius Mars had died: WAR VETERAN DIES Cassius Mars, aged 71 years, a Civil War veteran, died Monday at his home, 1201 North Fourth Street, after a few days’ illness, of pneumonia. He was a charter member of David R. Stevens Post No. 520, Grand Army […]
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 […]
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