Norman Gasbarro | March 13, 2011
For the past two days, individual veterans with the surname Hoover have been featured here in posts – on Friday, Pvt. Henry Hoover, who served in the 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, and on Saturday, Pvt. Alfred Hoover, who served in the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry. In the first of those posts, it was mentioned that twelve persons […]
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Norman Gasbarro | March 10, 2011
On the third day of the Battle of Gettsyburg, 3 July 1863, Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade was killed inside a home by a stray bullet while she was baking bread for hungry Union troops and thus became the only civilian casualty of the battle. Prior to this domestic exercise, she had faithful done her morning […]
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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Lykens Township, Pennsylvania Dutch, Regiments, Rickert family, Riegle family, Schwalm family, Specktown, Women, Yerges family
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