Norman Gasbarro | October 8, 2011
In the post yesterday, the strange occurrence of the discharge of all thirteen Columbia County draftees in Company I of the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry on Surgeon’s Certificates of Disability was revealed. Today the other twelve draftees who were discharged for the same reason will be noted. Eleven were from Dauphin County and one was from […]
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 29, 2011
Nearly all of the men who served in the Civil War from the Lykens Valley area served in military units as soldiers. But a few did serve as sailors or marines. Finding information on the sailors and marines is much more difficult than finding information on soldiers who served in Pennsylvania Civil War regiments, because they […]
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