Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features all the graves in the inner circle, first and second quadrants, beginning with photograph 147. The photographs in this segment are numbered 147 through 158. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran – and some […]
(Part 5 of 6). St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery is located in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, at the corner of East Grand Avenue (U.S. Route 209) and North 4th Street. At the front of the cemetery, along East Grand Avenue, is the Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial, which was previously […]
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 […]
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 today and continuing intermittently for eight posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each of […]
A listing of the August 2011 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown (Part 1 of 3) Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown (Part 2 of 3) Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown (Part 3 of 3) 62nd Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg […]
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