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Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg

| July 19, 2011

Peace Cemetery is located within the Borough of Berrysburg on Third Street and North Main Street.  The Peace Church of the United Church of Christ is located about one blocks from the cemetery.  This is an old cemetery and contains the graves of many Civil War soldiers. A representative group of four Civil War graves […]

Gratz During the Civil War – First Public School

| June 19, 2011

This is the second part in a series on Civil War Gratz.  This post focuses on the first public school in Gratz which was on Lot #11.  The 1862 map of Gratz has a space marked “S.H.” where the school house existed.  Most records indicate that there was a free public school located on Lot […]

Pvt. Peter W. Miller – Mental Health & the Civil War

| December 2, 2010

This story appeared in the Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pennsylvania, on 29 July 1895: Being unable to longer keep the wolf from his door, Peter W. Miller, an aged and disabled veteran of the late rebellion, made the journey to Washington on foot, and after having shown Pension Commissioner Lochran the scars from wounds received […]