In a section describing John A. Sipe, found in the Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County Pennsylvania (1911), no less than ten Civil War veterans are mentioned in his extended family. John A. Sipe was a merchant tailor who had a post-Civil War business that centered in Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, but operated in […]
A listing of the June 2011 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: 121st Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg 139th Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg 142nd Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg May 2011 Posts Jonas Row – 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry & 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry Heilner Woman’s Relief […]
(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 […]
(Part 2 of an on-going series of posts on the Battle of Gettysburg). In order to identify which of the 2000 Civil War veterans from the Lykens Valley area fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, we must first identify the Pennsylvania regiments that fought at Gettysburg. According to histories of the battle, the Union lineup […]
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