A listing of the September 2019 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: John Culp – 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry August 2019 Posts Lorenzo Michael – Another Millersburger Ignored by Millersburg Charles Henry Laudenslager of Lykens Obituary of Patrick J. Martin, 1906 Obituary of Henry Knauber – Hotel Operator of Newtown Death of Peter […]
A listing of the September 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: John H. Bowers – 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Peter Redinger – Scalded to Death, 1887 Emanuel Beitler – Living in Williamstown in 1890 August 2018 Posts Old Dunkard Church, Antietam – Post Card View Michael W. Bowers – Reserves Veteran from […]
A death certificate was filed in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on 14 May 1915, for Samuel Bartlett. The cause of death was “unknown to jury either suicide or exhaustion – body was found with clothes burned off due to mountain fire.” The certificate, shown above from Ancestry.com, notes that Samuel Bartlett was a widowed, “colored” male […]
Recently, a new memorial to Ocvatius Valentine Catto was ceremonially unveiled in Philadelphia in the central square of the city, just to the west of the south gate entrance to the City Hall Plaza. Previously, on this blog, a post entitled Octavius V. Catto, told of this African American’s relationship to the Civil War and […]
Another Memorial Day has gone by and the grave of Edward Crabb, an African American Civil War soldier buried in Gratz Union Cemetery, continues to be un-decorated [no G.A.R.-Star-Flag-Holder and Flag]. In addition to being un-decorated, the Crabb family plot is one of the worst maintained in a cemetery which is known for its manicured […]
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