Norman Gasbarro | May 2, 2014
In 1912, Clay W. Holmes wrote and published The Elmira Prison Camp: A History of the Military Prison at Elmira, N.Y., July 6, 1864 to July 10, 1865. The book is available free from the Internet Archive (click on title and follow instructions at left of page to download). After the Great Shohola Train Wreck […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 26, 2014
The blog post today is a continuation of the on-going series in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Great Shohola Train Wreck. To see all the posts in this series, click on ShoholaTrainWreck. A photocopy of a fourteen-page type-script purporting to be of a newspaper article from the 22 July 1864, Tri-States Union, a […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 24, 2014
Today’s post is the second installment of a series on The Great Shohola Train Wreck. Some of the early newspaper accounts from Pennsylvania newspapers are presented. On 15 July 1864, at about 2 P.M., a train carrying 833 Confederate prisoners of war and a contingent of Union guards, collided head-on with a 50-car coal train […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 19, 2014
On 15 July 1864, at about 2 P.M., a train carrying 833 Confederate prisoners of war and a contingent of Union guards, collided head-on with a 50-car coal train on a single-track main line of the New York and Erie Railroad. The collision occurred about one-and-a-half miles west of the small village of Shohola, Pike […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 27, 2013
Three members of the Poffenberger family of Dauphin County have been located in the Civil War military records. They are Joseph H. Poffenberger (1835-1867), William L. Poffenberger (1847-1920), and William H. Poffenberger (1839-1893). These three men were first cousins, since their fathers were brothers and they had a common grandfather, William Poffenberger (1783-1842). Previously, a […]
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