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Gratz During the Civil War – Kissinger House

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 […]

Who Was Samuel Shoop? (Part 3 of 3).

This is the final part of the three part series entitled “Who Was Samuel Shoop?”  In this post, the remaining Samuel Shoop‘s will be noted.  Much of the information is from the Pennsylvania Veterans’ Card File which is from the Pennsylvania Archives.  It is not know if this last post includes all the possible Samuel […]

Who Was Samuel Shoop? (Part 2 of 3)

In the post yesterday, the story was told of how it was discovered that there was more than one Samuel Shoop who could be identified with the Lykens Valley area and the Civil War Research Project of the Gratz Historical Society – and the question was asked as to which of these Samuel Shoop‘s served […]

Who Was Samuel Shoop? (Part 1 of 3)

The initial information obtained by the Civil War REsearch Project on a Civil War veteran named Samuel Shoop pertained to an individual who served in the 200th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, as a Corporal.  He was wounded at Fort Stedman, Petersbug, Virginia, 25 March 1865, and as result of the wound had his right leg […]

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Retreat with Honor

(Part 4 of 4).  In 1883,Clarence Clough Buel, the Assistant Editor of The Century Magazine, proposed a series of articles which would present differing points of view on the Civil War.  Buel’s plan included the eventual publication of the articles in book form.  In 1887 and 1888, the four volume work was first published. A […]