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September 2013 Posts

A listing of the September 2013 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: John Ritz, Alias Daniel Driebelbies August 2013 Posts Joseph M. Johnson – Millersburg Contractor and Civil War Veteran Samuel Byerly – Sunbury Merchant and War Veteran Funeral of Isaac Hepler of Gratz Simon C. Gratz – Son of First Mayor […]

Additions to Veterans’ List – M (Part 2)

Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012.  In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented.  […]

Additions to Veterans’ List – H

Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012.  In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented.  […]

Was Uncle John Keiper a Civil War Veteran?

Uncle John M. Keiper (1842-1887) is buried in the Old Stone Church Cemetery in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  He is one of many persons of whom it is believed that they served in the Civil War, but there is no formal recognition of their service at their graveside. John M. Keiper was born 17 February […]

John C. Herman – Tobacconist and Mayor of Harrisburg

During the Civil War, John C. Herman served in Company K, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, as a Private.  He enrolled at York, York County, Pennsylvania, and was mustered into service in Harrisburg, 9 August 1862.  By 28 December 1862, he was sick from “hemorrhoids and rheumatism in the back” and was sent to a hospital in […]