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Civil War Blog

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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 […]

2012 Additions to Civil War Veterans List – A to C

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 […]

The Journey of the Bloody Dress of Laura Keene

The removal of Laura Keene from the Northern Central Railroad train arriving at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania,  on the morning of 17 April 1865, and her subsequent arrest and detention were noted in the post Laura Keene Arrested at Harrisburg.  Traveling with Keene were John Dyott and Harry Hawk, the two male members of her […]

Best of 2011 – Photographic History of the Civil War

A twelve part series on The Photographic History of the Civil War was featured during the year.  For each of the ten volumes in the set, a free “pdf” download was provided.  Publication of this series of blog posts also resulted in the contribution of a first-edition set of the Photographic History to the Gratz […]

Lt. John S. Jury – 84th Pennsylvania Infantry & 57th Pennsylvania Infantry

Did Lt. John S. Jury keep the pen that was used to sign the terms of surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, on 9 April 1865, and is that pen still in the possession of the Jury family today?  On 25 June 1982, an interesting article appeared in The Progress, a newspaper covering Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.  The […]