Norman Gasbarro | July 24, 2013
During the past month, the following inquiry was one of many received from researchers trying to learn more about Civil War soldiers who were members of their family: I have been searching online for more information regarding a relative that was in the 68th [68th Pennsylvania Infantry] and came across your informative site. My relatives […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 19, 2013
According to family tradition, Conrad Reutler was a Civil War veteran. At his grave site in Tumbling Run Cemetery, Blythe Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, there is a G.A.R. star and flag holder indicating that he served in the Civil War. However, family research has been unable to confirm his service or the regiment in which […]
Jake Wynn | July 15, 2013
Let’s end this summer project with a bang. How about 18 rounds of canister shot fired from a Civil War bronze cannon? Canister rounds consist of several dozen iron balls packed into the barrel of a cannon and rammed home with a charge of black powder. When fired they turn the gun into a massive […]
Jake Wynn | July 13, 2013
Few men were as important to the Army of Northern Virginia as Jebediah Hotchkiss. Hotchkiss had served the army throughout the war, and gain notoriety with “Stonewall” Jackson as a mapmaker. In early 1863, thirty-five year old Hotchkiss was given the task of sending scouting parties to map the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys from Virginia […]
Jake Wynn | July 11, 2013
The estimated 51,000 casualties at Gettysburg came in many different forms. Most were the wounded; tens of thousands of men injured by bullets, shells, or any number of other potentially fatal encounters faced in battle. Some were captured over the battle’s three day span. However, Gettysburg’s saddest cases involved those who were killed on the […]
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