Today, the blog post again continues to feature members of the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, who served the full term of nine months and received honorable discharges on 5 August 1863. The research results presented here are based on preliminary data gathering on each of the members of the company and searches for Pension […]
Today, the blog post again continues to feature members of the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, who served the full term of nine months and received honorable discharges on 5 August 1863. The research results presented here are based on preliminary data gathering on each of the members of the company and searches for Pension […]
The blog post today presents four individuals who were drafted into the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, and who reported to Camp Curtin as required on 2 November 1862. Each found and paid a substitute to serve for him and thus were discharged from the regiment on the date indicated. Pennsylvania Veterans’ Index Cards are […]
This is the ninth in a series of posts on Gratz during the Civil War. The current house on Lot #65 on the north side of Market Street was built about 1857. Originally, this corner lot was purchased from Simon Gratz by George Philip Keener, a carpenter, but by 1852, it reverted back to the […]
There are many branches of the Klinger family in the Lykens Valley area. Many persons with the Klinger surname served in the Civil War. One good attempt to sort out a major branch of the Klinger family was made by Max E. Klinger and is entitled The Descendants of Johann Peter Klinger and Catharina Steinbruch. […]
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