Norman Gasbarro | March 1, 2011
One resources which is especially helpful in locating graves of Civil War soldiers is the web site “Find A Grave.” The site was created in 1995 by Jim Tipton, who states, “I created the Find A Grave website because I could not find an existing site that catered to my hobby of visiting the graves […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 21, 2011
Jacob DeWald Muench (1805-1846) and Sarah “Sally” [Moyer] Muench (1814-1879) of the Lykens Valley area had five sons. An oft-repeated Muench family legend is that when the Civil War began, all five sons of Jacob Muench went to enlist in the Union Army. But one son, Charles Edward Muench was sent home to help his […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 15, 2011
Early in the nineteenth century, perhaps at the very beginning of the settlement of Gratz, a militia was formed to protect the area from intruders and from hostile Indians, of which there were some. At the beginning of settlement, Gratz was on the frontier and had a “well regulated militia.” The early settlers of the […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 8, 2011
(Part 8 of 12). Contents of Volume VII of The Photographic History of the Civil War: Prisons and Hospitals. The year 1911 was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. In a memorial to the war, a ten volume set of books was published entitled The Photographic History of the Civil War. […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 7, 2011
Along the Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, just across from the Franklin Institute on 20th Street, is the monument erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to honor her “Colored Soldiers.” The monument plaque reads: To commemorate the heroism and sacrifice of all colored soldiers who served in the various wars engaged in by the United States […]
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