Norman Gasbarro | February 18, 2012
In the post yesterday, four memorials to Camp Curtin, the great Civil War army training camp in Harrisburg, were presented. Unfortunately nothing remains of the camp and it is left to research and the imagination to determine what actually happened there. It was also noted that only one photo was taken there and that photo […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 2, 2011
A revised and expanded edition of Civil War Harrisburg: A Guide to Capital Area Sites, Incidents and Personalities has recently been published by the Camp Curtin Historical Society. The book which is edited by Lawrence E. Keener-Farley and James E. Schmick, is available directly through the web site of the Camp Curtin Historical Society and […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 16, 2011
The Civil War Sesquicentennial was commemorated at Franklin Square in Philadelphia on Fourth of July weekend, 2011, with “encampments” of re-enactors representing several Pennsylvania-related military units. One of the units represented was the 3rd Regiment Infantry of United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.). It has been previously reported on this blog that several men from the […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 24, 2011
The house on this property, Lot #47, was built in the 1820s by Joshua Osman who purchased the lot from Simon Gratz in 1818. Some time around 1824, Peter Crabb (1787-?), a blacksmith, purchased the property from Osman, and probably built the small building in the rear which he used as a blacksmith shop. Peter […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 15, 2011
This post is a continuation of the history of the Soldiers’ Monument of Schuylkill County as reported in newspapers of the time and later by Joseph H. Zerbey in his History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. Thronged to capacity was Academy of Music, on Tuesday night 9 November 1897, when the property of the […]
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