The subject of this post is the identification of the fourth cousins of Harrison Riegle (1840-1899) of Gratz who served in Ohio regiments during the Civil War. Their common ancestor was Johannes Cornelius Riegel (1664-1750) who emigrated to America early in the eighteenth century. Previously, Harrison Riegle was profiled in the post entitled Children […]
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
Other than John E. Faunce, who was featured in a post here on Sunday, the following Pennsylvania Speakers of the House have Civil War connections. Page references are to biographical sketches that are found in Wisdom, Vision and Diplomacy: Speakers of the Pennsylvania House, by Jeane Hearn Schmedlen and published in 1998 by the Pennsylvania […]
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 […]
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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