An invitation from Jake Wynn…. Join local historian Jake Wynn at Calvary United Methodist Cemetery in Wiconisco on Sunday, May 29 at 7 PM for a memorial program commemorating the incredible lives of the region’s Civil War veterans. This hour-long program will bring visitors into the oldest sections of the cemetery and highlight the stories […]
Francis Wade Hughes (1817-1885) was an attorney in Pottsville at the time of the Civil War and the leader of the county Democratic Party. A nephew of his, John Hughes, was considered the most famous of all Schuylkill Countians who joined the Confederate war effort. According to information found in an article that appeared in […]
Henry Harrison Huntzinger is buried at Frieden’s Union Cemetery, Hegins, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, with his wife Amanda [Erdman] Huntzinger. Is this is the same Henry H. Huntzinger who served in the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1862), Headquarters, as 2nd Lieutenant and Adjutant of this militia regiment? At the time the photograph of his grave […]
Previously here, the Confederate sympathies of Francis Wade Hughes were discussed. Hughes was a lawyer in Pottsville at the time of the Civil War. Several of his brothers, although they were born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, relocated to North Carolina. At the beginning of the war, one of the nephews of Francis Wade Hughes, John […]
Today’s post is a photo essay on the two Civil War equestrian statues on the north side of Philadelphia’s City Hall. Above is the “Museum Without Walls” marker describing the statues and below is the text of the marker: GENERAL GEORGE McCLELLAN 1891 Henry Jackson Ellicott (1841-1901) – Sculptor MAJOR GENERAL JOHN FULTON REYNOLDS 1884 […]
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