Norman Gasbarro | December 12, 2018
The Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card shown above from the Pennsylvania Archives notes that a Josiah Ellinger, about 19 years old, enrolled at Philadelphia in Company I of the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry as a Private on 25 February 1862. However, he was not on the roll of the company at muster out. Another card (not shown) […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 10, 2018
On 15 September 1962, at Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Aaron Eckel answered the emergency call by enrolling in the 17th Pennsylvania Infantry Militia, Company H, as a Private. When the emergency ended, he was discharged on 26 September 1862. At the time he was about 36 years old. Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card above is from […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 7, 2018
Previously on this blog, Joseph Ehrhart, also known as Joseph Erhart was briefly profiled as part of a series on veterans of Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township: JOSEPH ERHART (1836-1900) is also found as Joseph Ehrhart. He served in the 208th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, as a Private. In the 1890 Census, he […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 3, 2018
On the occasion of the inauguration of William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C., 4 March 1909, Civil War veteran William H. DeHaven, reflected on the first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln on 4 March 1861, in a letter to the Harrisburg Telegraph: Tells of Lincoln’s First inauguration Inauguration day this morning brought back recollections to […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 30, 2018
Elias Dilfield, also found in the records as William Elias “Eli” Dilfield, died in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, on 1 December 1915. From the Reading Times, 13 December 1915: ELIAS DILFIELD DEAD Retired Hotel Keeper Succumbs at 710 North Sixth Street Elias Dilfield, a retired hotel keeper, died at 10:30 p.m. Saturday at his residence, […]
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