Norman Gasbarro | July 22, 2016
On 24 October 1864, Anthony “Anton” Haake, aged about 34, enrolled at Harrisburg in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company D, as a Private. He was honorably discharged on 18 July 1865, and the record shows that he returned to his home in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The return to Lykens is known because when he […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 26, 2016
Hiester Clymer (1827- 12 June 1884), a member of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania, was a State Senator who was opposed to Lincoln and his prosecution of the Civil War. In 1866 he ran for Governor and strongly espoused white supremacist policies. His opponent was Union General John W. Geary. According to Heister Clymer’s Wikipedia […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 14, 2016
This post will identify and review two readily-available print sources of information on the Ku Klan Klan in Pennsylvania in the 20th Century. This 20th Century iteration of the Klan was a re-incarnation of the first Klan that came about after the Civil War to deny rights to Freedmen by using terror and intimidation. From […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 27, 2016
Today’s post will begin to document numerous instances of hate and violence in Dauphin County which occurred before, during, and after the Civil War. This includes actions by individuals, by political parties, by social groups, and by terror groups. A new blog topic, “Hate,” is being introduced with this post and other posts on this […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 17, 2015
On Thursday evening, 22 January 2015, a hate crime occurred in Washington Township, just outside the Borough of Elizabethville, at the home of a young African American woman. The woman, who had moved from Harrisburg to make a better life for herself and her two children was targeted by someone who placed a burning cross […]
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