Norman Gasbarro | May 20, 2014
Benneville Hoyer (1844-1906) is buried at Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War he served in the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, as a Private. He is also found in the records as Benwill and Benwell. His enrollment occurred on 24 February 1862 at Schuylkill County, and he was mustered into service […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 2, 2014
Andrew Jackson Pontius, who is named on the Millersburg Soldier Monument, was first featured here on this blog with a biographical sketch on 19 April 2012. That previous sketch was from the book, A Celebration of Millersburg’s Bicentennial. The following biographical information is adapted from A Comprehensive History of the Town of Gratz Pennsylvania, published […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 2, 2013
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented. […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 28, 2013
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented. […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 9, 2012
The following article was found in the Gratz Historical Society files about a program Ned Weaver presented in the 1990s. The photographs that appeared with the article are in the Civil War collection of the Gratz Historical Society and are re-produced for this post from the originals. Gratz Historical Society Learns of Local Civil War […]
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