Norman Gasbarro | March 12, 2019
Previously on this blog, Mary Kilraine of Williamstown – Civil War Laundress was presented. Mary was first married to Patrick Craven of Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. After his death, she married Patrick Comuskey. The following story about Mary Comuskey was printed in the Williamstown Sesquicentennial Book in 1976. Mrs. Comuskey, “Woman with war history,” was […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 3, 2018
On the occasion of the inauguration of William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C., 4 March 1909, Civil War veteran William H. DeHaven, reflected on the first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln on 4 March 1861, in a letter to the Harrisburg Telegraph: Tells of Lincoln’s First inauguration Inauguration day this morning brought back recollections to […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 1, 2017
The obituary of Civil War veteran John J. Tobias, who was born near Donaldson, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, appeared in the Mount Carmel Item, 19 February 1935: J. J. TOBIAS, CIVIL WAR VETERAN, DIES DUE TO INFIRMITIES Defender of the Union Answers “Taps” After Being Bedfast a Week; Military Funeral To Be Held on Friday Afternoon […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 30, 2016
In April 1865, Abraham Lincoln‘s funeral train left Washington, D.C., on a three-week journey on its way to Springfield, Illinois. During the time that Lincoln’s body lay in state for viewing by thousands in New York City, a photographer, Jeremiah Gurney Jr., with permission of those responsible for security, took a photograph. Secretary of War […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 2, 2016
The photograph shown above was purportedly taken by O. Pierre Havens of Ossining, New York in either 1862 or 1863, of the camp of the 5th New York Cavalry. In the center of the picture, seated, is a man wearing a top hat. While many people have concluded that the man is Abraham Lincoln, Stefan […]
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