The following biographical sketch of Gen. James Nagle of Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, is adapted with annotations from the Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkll County Pennsylvania, pages 298-230. The work was compiled by Samuel Wiley and published in 1893 by Rush, West and Company of Philadelphia. The full work is also available as a […]
A listing of the May 2012 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Isaac Garber – 215th Pennsylvania Infantry & Regular Army Anthony Fisher – The Barber of Tremont William Boeckler – The Barber of Lykens April 2012 Posts Battle of New Bern, North Carolina, March 1862 New Bern, North Carolina – 1861-1865 […]
The Battle of Antietam, fought on 17 September 1862, was the first major Civil War battle that was fought on Union soil (Maryland) and was also the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history. Many Pennsylvanians participated in this battle and became casualties. The Ninth Army Corps, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside consisted of […]
Isaac Garber LYKENS, 2 March 1933 — Isaac Garber, 83, Civil War veteran of this place and well known in this section, died at his home in South Second Street, Thursday morning at 12:15 following four years’ illness of complications. Mr. Garber was born in Lancaster and was a resident of Lykens for the past […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project as updated 19 April 2012. In a series of post beginning Friday, 20 April 2012 and continuing intermittently for seven posts until concluding tomorrow, a brief sketch of each of the newly […]
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