Norman Gasbarro | May 30, 2016
The following are some mishaps which occurred in 1917 involving Civil War veterans and their families. ————————— From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 14 March 1917: Stricken With Paralysis While Top of Tree Columbia, Pennsylvania, 14 March 1917 — William T. Strauss, Civil War veteran, and a former borough engineer, was stricken by apoplexy while on top […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 23, 2016
John Peter Crabb, Civil War veteran and native of Gratz, Pennsylvania, moved to Harrisburg after the Civil War, where he became a founder and Commander of Stevens Post No. 520, G.A.R. He was previously profiled here, but not included in that article was a fair conducted by that post in 1889 for the purpose of […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 22, 2016
In the 1860 Census of Washington Township, (Post Office Elizabethville), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, there appears a family identified in the “Color” column as “m” for Mulatto. The head of the family was Marks Hornet, a 38 year-old laborer. He indicated to the census that he was born in Pennsylvania, that did not own any real […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 22, 2016
The second mural in the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program is found on 8th Street between Chestnut Street and Market Streets in Philadelphia and has a Civil War theme. It is painted on the west-facing wall on the side of a building behind a parking lot. According to the painted “plaque” in the […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 19, 2016
Additional information is sought on the following African American Civil War veterans: From the Harrisburg Patriot, 21 April 1913: JAMES E. DENT James E. Dent, aged 72 years, died Saturday morning at his home, 1102 North Cameron Street [Harrisburg] after a long illness. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post […]
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