A listing of the April 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Conrad Zimmerman – Last G.A.R. Member of Halifax Ku Klux Klan Day at Elizabethville Attracts Huge Crowd, 1926 March 2018 Posts Two Militia Men Named John Wingert or One? Obituary of George N. Wilver Civil War Soldiers Buried at Lykens […]
In September 1910, news reports of the discovery of a long-lost Halifax area Civil War veteran began to appear in the local newspapers. That veteran was John Adams Miller who was born in Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 23 May 1834, the son of Joseph H. Miller III (1812-1897) and Elizabeth B. [Bowerman] Miller […]
During the Civil War, Daniel Paul served as a Private in the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H. After the Civil War, he moved to Michigan, but kept in touch with his Lykens Valley friends and relatives via correspondence to the editor of the Lykens newspaper. Some of the result of that correspondence from the period […]
The Philadelphia Public Ledger of 23 April 1921 announced the death of Isaac Uhler: Isaac Uhler, a veteran of the Civil War, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen M. Fleming, 5239 North Fifteenth Street [Philadelphia], yesterday. He was seventy-seven years old. Mr. Uhler is survived by Mrs. Fleming and one son, Doyle […]
During the Civil War, Joseph W. Knouff served in Company H of the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, for nine months. He died on 10 April 1902 and is buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Enders, Dauphin County. On 21 July 1890, Joseph W. Knouff applied for a disability pension, which, according to the Pension Index Card […]
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