Jake Wynn | July 9, 2013
-Evening Telegraph, July 11, 1863 Serious Accident.—From the Sunbury American we learn that an accident occurred on the Northern Central Railroad on Monday afternoon, near Port Trevorton. A cow sprang on the track suddenly, from behind a wood pile. The result was, the locomotive was run off the track, the mail and baggage car […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 26, 2013
The name of Michael Haverstick appears on the Millersburg Soldier Monument. Haverstick served in the 16th U.S. Infantry Regiment of the Regular Army, Company H, as a Private. He was mustered into service on 25 February 1864, at York County, Pennsylvania. At the time of his enrollment, he was 43 years old, was a miller […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 23, 2013
During the Civil War, John C. Herman served in Company K, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, as a Private. He enrolled at York, York County, Pennsylvania, and was mustered into service in Harrisburg, 9 August 1862. By 28 December 1862, he was sick from “hemorrhoids and rheumatism in the back” and was sent to a hospital in […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 23, 2012
The Andrews’ Raid, also known as the Great Locomotive Chase, was a military action in northern Georgia that occurred on 12 April 1862. James J. Andrews, a northern civilian scout, along with volunteers from several Ohio regiments, captured a train on the Western and Atlantic Railroad (W&ARR) and moved it toward Chattanooga, Tennessee. The objective […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 18, 2012
Information about the life of William Bender, of Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, a Civil War veteran, can be found in the Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, published in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1910, J. L. Runk and Company, and authored by William Henry Egle. (Click on book title for free download). William Bender, wheelwright and […]
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