;

Civil War Blog

A project of PA Historian

Civil War Exhibit at Millersburg

| April 7, 2012

The first floor of the building at 324 Center Street, Millersburg, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania, will have a new and updated Civil War exhibit when it opens to the public for the 2012 season in early May.  The building, an old fire house built in 1918, is the headquarters of the Historical Society of Millersburg and […]

50th New York Engineers & 15th New York Engineers at Gettysburg

| March 20, 2012

The 50th New York Engineers Monument at Gettysburg is located near the Pennsylvania Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The monument also honors the 15th New York Engineers. The monument does not name the individuals who served in the regiments. 50th New York Engineers, Mustered In 18 September 1861, Mustered Out 13 June 1865.  Participated in […]

History of the Dauphin County Civil War Monument – Part 3

| March 15, 2012

Part 3.  The Dauphin County Memorial to the Civil War is currently located in a park at 3rd Street and Division Streets near William Penn High School and near Italian Lake.  It is now in the Uptown section of Harrisburg, north of what was once the entrance area to Camp Curtin.  The monument stands about […]

Josiah W. Steever, Killed in Mines

| March 10, 2012

TWO KILLED IN PLYMOUTH MINE PLYMOUTH, 27 August 1903. — A heavy fall of coal in the Red Ash vein of the No. 5 colliery of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company in Plymouth at 10:30 this morning cost the lives of two men.  They are, J. W. Steever, miner, aged 52 years, of East […]

Death of Joel B. Myers

| March 1, 2012

Death of Joel B. Myers LYKENS, 26 June 1903 — Joel B. Myers died at his home in Wiconisco on Friday evening, 19 June, at about 5 o’clock, after an illness of one week.  Thursday preceding his death he had an attack of cramp and so great was the strain upon his constitution that the […]