Jake Wynn | July 5, 2013
Nestled in the upper end of the Lykens Valley, Hegins was a sleepy, little farming community in the spring of 1863. The war had taken many of its men off to war, leaving behind families struggling to support their farms. Then there was those men who stayed behind, for one reason or another. Among these […]
Jake Wynn | July 4, 2013
For the Army of the Potomac, Gettysburg didn’t mean the end of campaigning in the summer of ’63. Henry Keiser and the rest of the 96th PA waited on the battlefield until Lee’s army left the area. Then the long pursuit began which required tough marching in the infamously muddy conditions from Gettysburg. Here is […]
Jake Wynn | July 3, 2013
While much in the way of the daily record in the area covered by this blog is lost, we are very lucky to have one great record of nearly the entire war. Henry Keiser, of Lykens, PA, served in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment throughout the Civil War. He and the regiment saw some of […]
Jake Wynn | June 25, 2013
Few towns are as full of Civil War history as the small, but memorable Winchester, Virginia. Today, the county seat of Frederick County sits at the confluence of several major roads, just as the town did during its Civil War years. War came to Winchester in 1862, 1863, and 1864. The historic courthouse in the […]
Jake Wynn | June 23, 2013
The following comes from Charles Coffin’s book The Boys of ’61, which told of his experiences in the different armies of the Civil War. He was the war correspondent for the Boston Journal during the Civil War. Here is a chapter that tells specifically of his time in Pennsylvania and Maryland as the Confederates entered the North […]
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