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 today and continuing intermittently for eight posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each of […]
This post is a continuation of the history of the Soldiers’ Monument of Schuylkill County as reported in newspapers of the time and later by Joseph H. Zerbey in his History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. Thronged to capacity was Academy of Music, on Tuesday night 9 November 1897, when the property of the […]
This is a continuation of the history of the Soldiers’ Monument of Schuylkill County as given by Joseph H. Zerbey in his History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. Parade of Nine Divisions Associated with the dedicatory ceremonies was a parade which moved, promptly, at noon, over the following route. Up Centre Street to Minersville […]
Today’s post continues the history of the Soldiers’ Monument of Schuylkill County as told by Joseph H. Zerber in his History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County. On the four polished sides of the second die are inscribed: “Fort Sumter,” “Emancipation,” “Gettysburg,” “Appomattox,” in raised letters. On the four corners of the third base are life-size […]
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