Norman Gasbarro | April 28, 2016
On 4 November 2014, a post entitled “The Groff Brothers? Hiram, Valentine and William,” was presented here. Some questions were asked in that post and readers were asked to submit additional information about the men named Groff. Note: A prior post also discussed “Israel M. Groff and Sons – All Civil War Veterans?” The following […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 27, 2016
Many veterans died tragic deaths. These two men, having lived nearly 60 years after the close of the Civil War, died in 1924, one as a result of an accident and one as a result of suicide. From the Harrisburg Evening News, 20 May 1924: Gas from an open house to which he had gone […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 26, 2016
Hiester Clymer (1827- 12 June 1884), a member of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania, was a State Senator who was opposed to Lincoln and his prosecution of the Civil War. In 1866 he ran for Governor and strongly espoused white supremacist policies. His opponent was Union General John W. Geary. According to Heister Clymer’s Wikipedia […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 25, 2016
The obituary of Henry Lichtley appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph, 31 March 1924: ONE OF FIRST MEN AT CAMP CURTIN DIES AT AGE OF 85 One of the first soldiers to be trained in the Union camp at Camp Curtin, this city [Harrisburg], during the Civil War, died last Friday in the Pottstown Hospital from […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 22, 2016
In the 1860 Census of Washington Township, (Post Office Elizabethville), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, there appears a family identified in the “Color” column as “m” for Mulatto. The head of the family was Marks Hornet, a 38 year-old laborer. He indicated to the census that he was born in Pennsylvania, that did not own any real […]
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