Norman Gasbarro | April 5, 2017
Sometimes men who are reported as deserters in the Civil War records were not actually deserters but died in the war, their deaths being unexplained or unreported. Was this the case with Charles Meckenstorm? The Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card from the Pennsylvania Archives (shown above) indicates that a Charles Meckenstorm enrolled on 14 August 1861 […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 3, 2017
Nelson C. Meck was born 24 March 1847 in Pennsylvania, the son of John Meck (1820-1886), a drayman, and Lydia Meck (a819-1887). Both parents are buried at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. On 7 March 1865, Nelson Meck enrolled at Harrisburg in the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry, the second Company K, and […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 31, 2017
Previously, on this blog, the death and funeral of John C. Miller were described. The above portion of the plaque on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument notes the name of 1st Sergeant John C. Miller as a Civil War veteran who was wounded during the war and joined the Heilner Post after its organization. The Pennsylvania […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 29, 2017
Barnhardt Plotzer Sr.‘s name appears on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument as a veteran from the Civil War who was not a member of the Heiler Post. Finding him in the records was not easy because of the various ways his name is spelled in those records. For example, the first name has been found as […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 27, 2017
Henry Barry Miller was born on 1 October 1840 and died on 5 April 1923. He is buried at the Arlington Cemetery, Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and at the grave site, there is a bronze emblem designating his Civil War service. Records show that at the time he enlisted, he was a resident of […]
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