In the post today, the previously identified men who served honorably in the 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, will be noted. These men all have some connection to the Lykens Valley area and the Civil War Research Project. All the men are included in the present version of the Veterans List. Many of these veterans […]
An unusual number of desertions – thirty-three in all – occurred in Company H of the 210th Pennsylvania Infantry. Most of these desertions took place in Harrisburg or in Camp Curtin before the company left for the front, with a only small number occurring during the regiment’s service in the field. According to the history […]
It is very possible that Mahlon Shaaber (1844-1917), standing at more than six foot seven inches, was the tallest soldier in the Civil War. The portrait of him, taken in his G.A.R. uniform some time after 1900, shows him standing alone, but another picture, known to have been taken in 1910 in Atlantic City (below), […]
Four members of the Crook family of Clark’s Ferry, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania served in the Civil War. Clark’s Ferry is located in the lower part of the triangular area of study of the Civil War Research Project. The 1858 map (above) of Reed Township is from the Pennsylvania Archives. It shows the location of Clark’s […]
A listing of the Novmber 2012 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Elizabethville Civil War Veterans List Dr. Wilson E. Naylor – Elizabethville Dentist October 2012 Posts Election of 1862 Spielberg Lincoln movie opening Nov 9 The Ditty Brothers of Millersburg & Elizabethville Jeannie Gourlay – Cast Member at Ford’s When Lincoln […]
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