The 87th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company C living history group has released its 2019 schedule of events. Many are open to the public.
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Living historian Kelly Summerford will appear as Underground Railroad conductor William C. Goodridge at the Feb. 20 meeting of the York Civil War Round Table.
Lewisberry’s Dr. Webster Lewis and his son Robert, a physician in Dover, were among the early conductors in York County’s Underground Railroad movement.
More than 800 American soldiers, many of them German or Austrian Jews, trained for psychological warfare at Gettysburg’s secretive Camp Sharpe.
York author and webmaster Randy Drais was part of a volunteer team that recovered old ties of the defunct Gettysburg & Harrisburg RR, which once ran through the battlefield.
Lancaster County PA author Raymond Smecker’s new historical novel is about Brandy (a Morgan horse), the Randolph family, and the battle of Gettysburg.
The York Civil War Round Table kicks off its 2019 campaign with author Randy Drais discussing W. H. Tipton’s vintage photographs of Gettysburg.
York’s chief burgess, Democrat David Small, endorsed famed Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin as a possible candidate for PA governor in 1863. It was not to be.
A doctor at York’s army hospital lost his job because of corruption. Also, a pair of civilians were imprisoned for harboring deserters from the hospital.
From 1863 through the early part of Reconstruction, a factory in York PA was one of the leading producers of Borden brand condensed milk in the country.