Norman Gasbarro | March 13, 2012
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 110 feet […]
Norman Gasbarro | 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 […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 2, 2012
An Honorable War Record LYKENS, 7 August 1903. — We read almost daily in the papers of the State the military record of some veteran of the Civil War who believes his services were of much character as to prove of interest to the general public, but we doubt if any can show up a […]
Norman Gasbarro | 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 […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 29, 2012
On 29 February 1864, bad news was received from several war fronts and H. Judson Kilpatrick was leading a secret mission to free Union prisoners being held at Richmond – a mission that would end in total failure. One “Leap Year” occurred during the Civil War. The extra day was added during 1864 – on […]
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