Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features seven graves in the second circle, fourth quadrant, beginning with photograph 138. The photographs in this segment are numbered 138 through 144. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
John Ritz (1848-1932) is buried at Maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. At his grave site is a G.A.R. star and flag holder and his stone notes his service in Company C of the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry. John Ritz died on 2 July 1932 at the age of 84 years, 2 months, 28 days […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented. […]
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 […]
Part 3 of 7. In a prior post, one branch of the Riegel family’s origins in America was presented – that of Mattheis Riegell (born about 1615) of Bad Muenster, Palatinate, Germany, who married Maria Werner. They had a son, Jost Riegell (1615-1687) who married Maria Honen (or Hoenen). Their son, Cornelius Riegel (1674-175) was […]
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