Norman Gasbarro | March 7, 2011
In 1969, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, celebrated 175 years of history by publishing a book, Indian Arrows to Atoms or the Story of Halifax and the Valleys. In the preface to the book, Halifax Historian Lee B. Noblet wrote the following: Out of the past came a voice from a wilderness saying “If tall and […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 6, 2011
The Halifax area of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, consists of the area within the angle (“C’) of the triangular area of study for this Civil War Research Project (see portion of map below). Essentially, everything south of Millersburg (upper left on the insert map) and Elizabethville (upper right on the insert map) could be considered part […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 20, 2011
As the result of a correspondence from a blog reader, John W. Knouff was added to the Civil War Research Project. Initially, only one John Knouff was include in the project list. That John Knouff died in the war at Dabney’s Mills, Virginia, in 1865, as reported in the previous post. The confusion of having […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 19, 2011
Tragically, two Pennsylvanians named Knouff did not survive the war. David Knouff, who died of a condition contracted during the war and John Knouf, who was killed at Dabney’s Mill in Virgina, both served in the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, and both were from the area around Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, their records […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 7, 2011
(Part 7 of 12). Contents of Volume VI of The Photographic History of the Civil War: The Decisive Battles. 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. […]
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