Rev. Thomas W. Garland (1847-1925) was first located as Civil War veteran in the 1890 Veterans’ Census for Halifax Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he reported that he had served in the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, as a Private, from 31 March 1864 through discharge on 19 July 1865. He also indicated that he […]
On 25 June 1993, a story appeared in the Citizen Standard (Valley View, Pennsylvania), entitled “Traitors: Some Locals Served with Confederates If Unwillingly.” The story was written by Mark T. Major. Included was a paragraph about John S. Eckel of Tremont: In Arkansas, John Eckel, a Tremont native, worked as a laborer until he was […]
Israel Seiders was born on 1 September 1838 in Matamoras, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son Henry Seiders (also known as Zeiders) and Mary [Miller] Seiders, His mother was a descendant of the Enders family, early pioneer settlers of the area near Halifax Township. He died on 4 May 1904, and the next day, his obituary […]
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. […]
A listing of the May 2013 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Abraham Lincoln on Stamps – From the Sesquicentennial to the Bicentennial of His Birth April 2013 Posts Civil War Descendants of Nathaniel Gist Cinco de Mayo, the Confederacy, and Gen. Jo Shelby Jonas Swab – Civil War Letters to His […]
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