Norman Gasbarro | July 9, 2012
Herbert E. Stover‘s Pennsylvania: A History of Our State was a textbook in use in the schools in the Lykens Valley area in 1945 and for some years afterward. The well-used copy belonging to the Gratz Historical Society is shown above and now resides in a large collection of texts that were in use in […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 4, 2012
From an editorial that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 4 July 1864, the following excerpts are presented: The Day The Nation celebrates, to-day, the eighty-sixth anniversary of its birth, and although we had hoped also to commemorate at the same time the occupation of the city of Richmond by our troops, we can well […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 24, 2012
In the post yesterday, the story of the last reunion of the First Defenders was told. That reunion was held in 1935 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. One member of that group, which originally consisted of 530 veterans, was able to attend the reunion. Only three were still alive. Their combined ages totalled 286 years. […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 18, 2012
As pointed out in the post of 10 May 2012 (Pennsylvania Regimental Numbers – A Second Look), it is unfortunate that the militia companies that were in existence in local communities, when called into state service, were given the same regimental number designations as the state-raised infantry regiments that were sent into national service. There […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 26, 2012
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was updated 19 April 2012. In a series of post beginning last Friday and continuing intermittently for seven posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each […]
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