West Virginia Civil War Trails is one of a series of publications produced for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War and was funded in part by the Transportation Enhancement Funds provided by the Federal Highways Administration. This edition, for West Virgina, is similar in format to the other publications for Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina […]
George Spangler, who late in life was a school janitor in Lykens Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, died on 25 January 1921. He was a Civil War veteran who served in the 2nd Company G of the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry. The obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 28 January 1921: CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES AS […]
The death notice of Henry B. Ferree (1844-1903) appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 18 April 1903: Henry Feree, a highly respected citizen of Lykens Township, died on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was a sufferer from miners’ asthma. His age was some sixty years. Interment was made in the Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery at Gratz, […]
Jacob Shiro was born in Wittenberg, Germany, on 19 February 1843, the son of Jacob Shiro and Susan [Bellon] Shiro. He arrived in the United States around 185 at the age of eight. During the Civil War, he served in Company G, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry, as a Private, from 14 March 1865 through discharge on […]
The skies of Harrisburg lit up on the morning of 15 June 1865. A fire had broken out in coach-maker J. R. Fleming‘s two-story building at Third Street and Strawberry Alley. It quickly spread to several other buildings. The investigation quickly concluded that the fire was set by arsonists. The Philadelphia Inquirer of 16 June […]
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