St. Peter’s United Church of Christ Cemetery is located in Reinerton, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. To find the cemetery, travel south on Clarks Valley Road (Route 325) from the main street of Tower City which is called Grand Avenue (Route 209). At Deitrich Avenue, make a left turn and travel east. The church and cemetery are […]
In this, the first of two posts on the Pennsylvania regiments present during the Petersburg-Richmond Campaign, the “order of battle”, or the listing of how the Union Army was organized for battle, will begin. The listing will conclude tomorrow. Many men from the Lykens Valley area participated in the campaign around Richmond which was one […]
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was updated 19 April 2012. In a series of post beginning last Friday and continuing intermittently for seven posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each […]
Civil War veteran burials in the Calvary United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, are continued today. —————————— John Kaufman (1840-1904). Also spelled Kauffman. Served in the 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, as a Sergeant. Muster in 30 October 1862 and mustered out with his company on 16 August 1863. Married to Mary Heisler. […]
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