Norman Gasbarro | February 3, 2016
Philip C. Swab is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War, he served in the 208th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, as a Private. He was mustered into service on 30 August 1864 and honorably discharged on 1 June 1865. In 1870, Swab was a retail dry goods […]
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Tags: Berrysburg, Elizabethville, G.A.R., Mifflin Township, Millersburg, Tremont, Washington Township, Williamstown
Norman Gasbarro | December 20, 2015
Originally, the name of Uriah Gambler was added to the Civil War Project as a result of his name being found in the Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Veterans’ Census of 1890. After researching him further and his grave and obituary located, it was found that he was born in Berks County, that he was a United […]
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Norman Gasbarro | December 14, 2015
Gratz is a small community in Upper Dauphin County that in 1883 formed a local G.A.R. post. Much of the history of that post has been lost over time and now needs to be re-created through available resources, among those resources, the Harrisburg and other archived newspapers and the national Grand Army of the Republic […]
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Tags: Berrysburg, Elizabethville, Enterline, Erdman, Fisherville, G.A.R., Gratz Borough, Hebe, Killinger, Lykens Borough, Lykens Township, Millersburg, Pillow, Uniontown, Valley View, Wiconisco, Williamstown, Women
Norman Gasbarro | November 30, 2015
Fisherville is a small community in Upper Dauphin County, near Halifax Borough, that in 1883 formed a local G.A.R. post. Much of the history of that post has been lost over time and now needs to be re-created through available resources, among those resources, the Harrisburg and other archived newspapers and the national Grand Army […]
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Tags: Berrysburg, Elizabehville, Enders, Fisherville, G.A.R., Georgetown, Gratz Borough, Halifax Borough, Halifax Township, Jackson Township, Lykens Borough, Millersburg, Tower City, Williamstown
Norman Gasbarro | November 24, 2015
Further information in sought on Samuel Fetterholf, born about 1838, who enrolled at Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 17 September 1861, was mustered into service on 7 October 1861 at Camp Cameron, Harrisburg, and served as a Private in Company B, until he was transferred to Company K by order […]
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