A listing of the June 2014 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: William Gratz and a Mother’s Pension The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – The Cemetery List – Identified Grave Sites The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – The Cemetery List – Unidentified Grave Sites May 2014 Posts The Great Shohola Train Wreck – Adam […]
Cyrene Bowman enlisted on 9 September 1861 as a Private in Company A of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was discharged from service on 23 October 1862. The following information from his pension application file gives some insight into his experiences in the war: Wounded at the battle near Chantilly, 1 September 1862 – treated […]
The history of the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry explains why replacement companies had to be recruited in 1864 and 1865. From the Lykens Valley area around Gratz, Company G of the 103rd Pensylvania Infantry was formed in March of 1865 and sent south to Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Their experiences there were unlike other companies that […]
Proceed north on Centre Street (downhill) – called “Chestnut Street” on the map shown below – to the Gratz Union Cemetery which is located on the west side of the street and surrounds Simeon United Lutheran Church. In the days of the Civil War, three separate burial areas were designated – one for the Evangelical […]
This is the eleventh in a series of posts on Gratz during the Civil War. The original house on Lot #85 on the north side of Market Street was built about 1832 at the time the land was conveyed to John Welker (1784-1854). The earliest found picture of the house is shown above and is […]
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