Norman Gasbarro | March 6, 2012
In prior posts on the actions of Laura Keene immediately after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the story of her rushing up to the State Box with a pitcher of water and then cradling Lincoln’s head in her lap was examined. There is no contemporaneous evidence that this actually happened, but there are many who […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 5, 2012
The journey of Laura Keene from the stage at Ford’s Theatre on the night of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where she was arrested and held by the Provost Marshal, continues in today’s post. The last post on this topic was on 22 February 2012, when her flight from Washington […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 22, 2012
The removal of Laura Keene from the Northern Central Railroad train arriving at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on the morning of 17 April 1865, and her subsequent arrest and detention were noted in the post Laura Keene Arrested at Harrisburg. Traveling with Keene were John Dyott and Harry Hawk, the two male members of her […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 19, 2012
The last stop on the Lykens Valley Railroad was Millersburg, where connections could be made with the Northern Central Railroad. This was one of the busiest points in the Union during the Civil War and everything from freight to regular passenger trains to troop trains to prisoner trains traveled through this small town day and […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 18, 2012
In the post yesterday, four memorials to Camp Curtin, the great Civil War army training camp in Harrisburg, were presented. Unfortunately nothing remains of the camp and it is left to research and the imagination to determine what actually happened there. It was also noted that only one photo was taken there and that photo […]
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