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Civil War Blog

A project of PA Historian

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 […]

Hoover Family in the Civil War

For the past two days, individual veterans with the surname Hoover have been featured here in posts – on Friday, Pvt. Henry Hoover, who served in the 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, and on Saturday, Pvt. Alfred Hoover, who served in the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry.  In the first of those posts, it was mentioned that twelve persons […]

Halifax Area Civil War Veterans

In 1969, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, celebrated 175 years of history by publishing a book, Indian Arrows to Atoms or the Story of Halifax and the Valleys.  In the preface to the book, Halifax Historian Lee B. Noblet wrote the following: Out of the past came a voice from a wilderness saying “If tall and […]