The obituary of Joseph M. Johnson who died in 1923 at the home of his daughter in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, clears up the mystery of why he was reported as killed in action at the Po River. He is also the same J. M. Johnson whose name appears on the Millersburg Monument. During the […]
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 […]
A listing of the March 2011 posts on The Society Civil War Blog with direct links: Finding Civil War Veterans’ Graves Finding Cemeteries in the Lykens Valley Area The Fair Use Doctrine and Pictures Found on Find A Grave Abraham Lincoln in Dauphin County February 2011 Posts Halifax Area and the Civil War Halifax Area […]
A brigade of Irish troops was originally formed in September of 1861 upon authorization of the Secretary of War. At first it consisted of three New York regiments – the 63rd New York Infantry, the 69th New York Infantry, and the 88th New York Infantry. To give the brigade some additional strength, the 29th Massachusetts […]
(Part 12 of 12). A condensed version of the index found in Volume X of The Photographic History of the Civil War: Armies and Leaders, with reference to specific Pennsylvania regiments included in the ten volumes of The Photographic History. The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. In […]
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