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 […]
(Part 12 of 12). A condensed version of the index found in Volume X of The Photographic History of the Civil War: Armies and Leaders, with reference to specific Pennsylvania regiments included in the ten volumes of The Photographic History. The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. In […]
(Part 2 of an on-going series of posts on the Battle of Gettysburg). In order to identify which of the 2000 Civil War veterans from the Lykens Valley area fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, we must first identify the Pennsylvania regiments that fought at Gettysburg. According to histories of the battle, the Union lineup […]
A news brief found in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 27 October 1871 told of injuries received by Henry Knouff, previously identified and profiled here as a Civil War veteran from Millersburg, Dauphin County, while he was working on construction of a part of the Northern Central Railway: Our Millersburg correspondent writes: A man by the […]
Ephraim F. Knipe was born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, about 1839. He was a painter at the time of the Civil War, and according to military records, he served in three different regiments, one of which was an 1863 emergency militia. He was married to the former Elizabeth Zimmerman. In 1890, at the time […]
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