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Additions to Veterans’ List – M (Part 1)

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.  […]

Additions to Veterans’ List – L

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.  […]

Rev. Lewis D. Steckel – Reformed Minister of Lykens

The Rev. Lewis Daniel Steckel (1839-1922) served as the pastor of the Reformed Church in Lykens Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, at the end of the 19th and early part of the 20th century.  He also had a congregation in Tower City, Schuylkill County.  During the Civil War he was the Quartermaster Sergeant in the 176th […]

November 2012 Posts

A listing of the Novmber 2012 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Elizabethville Civil War Veterans List Dr. Wilson E. Naylor – Elizabethville Dentist October 2012 Posts Election of 1862 Spielberg Lincoln movie opening Nov 9 The Ditty Brothers of Millersburg & Elizabethville Jeannie Gourlay – Cast Member at Ford’s When Lincoln […]

Pennsylvania Regiments at Petersburg and Richmond – Corps and Generals (Part 2 of 2)

In this, the second 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, concludes.  Many men from the Lykens Valley area participated in the campaign around Richmond which was one of the longest, largest and most […]