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Civil War Blog

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The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – Photographs 24 – 32

Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the outer circle, second quadrant, beginning at the first stone in the quadrant.  The photographs are numbered 24 through 24.  Unfortunately, like those in photographs 6 through 23, most of the grave sites have stones that are unreadable due to severe weathering.  It […]

The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – Photographs 15 – 23

Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the outer circle, first quadrant, beginning at the tenth stone from the path.  The photographs are numbered 15 through 23.  Unfortunately, like those in photographs 6 through 14, most of the grave sites have stones that are unreadable due to severe weathering.  It […]

The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – Photographs 6 -14

Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the outer circle, first quadrant, beginning at the path.  The photographs are numbered 6 through 14.  Unfortunately, most of the grave sites have stones that are unreadable due to severe weathering.  It is believed that this is the first group of burials in […]

The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – Mapping the Circle

The G.A.R. Soldiers’ Circle at the Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, was described and pictured in the previous blog post in this series.  In today’s post, the map will be pictured which was drawn from the sequential series of photographs taken at the Circle in 2012 by the Civil War Research Project.  The maps […]

G.A.R. Soldiers’ Circle at Shamokin Cemetery

The Shamokin Cemetery is located at the intersection of South Anthracite Street and West High Street in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.  Within the cemetery there is a monument to the men who died in the Civil War.  There is no direct path or road to the monument from South Anthracite Street and West High Street, […]