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2012 Additions to Civil War Veterans List – P to S

Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was updated 19 April 2012.  In a series of post beginning last Friday and continuing intermittently for seven posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each […]

Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown (Part 3 of 3)

  This is the final of three posts on the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  The cemetery is located at the east end of Williamstown on the north side of Market Street.  For the past two days and today, a total of eighteen grave markers will be shown from this cemetery with information […]

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Struggle Intensifies

(Part 2 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. […]

March 2011 Posts

A listing of the March 2011 posts on The Society Civil War Blog with direct links: Finding Civil War Veterans’ Graves Finding Cemeteries in the Lykens Valley Area The Fair Use Doctrine and Pictures Found on Find A Grave Abraham Lincoln in Dauphin County February 2011 Posts Halifax Area and the Civil War Halifax Area […]

Pennsylvania Regiments at Gettysburg – Corps & Generals

(Part 2 of an on-going series of posts on the Battle of Gettysburg). In order to identify which of the 2000 Civil War veterans from the Lykens Valley area fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, we must first identify the Pennsylvania regiments that fought at Gettysburg. According to histories of the battle, the Union lineup […]