Wrightsville’s schools and factories closed on Dec. 14, 1917, as the governor of Pennsylvania dedicated four Civil War cannon. “Farthest east.”
Monuments and markers Archives
A Rebel soldier who fought at Gettysburg later designed and sculpted the impressive Irish Brigade Monument. William O’Donovan had a connection to York PA.
Civil War Trails has installed two new wayside markers in Wrightsville commemorating the Mifflin House and the Underground Railroad and Civil War skirmish.
York County, PA, bordering slave state Maryland, had many residents that expressed pro-Southern sentiments during the Civil War, including at the polls. Sometimes, that support was more blatant.
Ask most Civil War buffs to name ten Union generals that fought at Gettysburg, and
The battle of Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863, saw both heroes and cowards, brave men
Since 1978, Debi and I have been members of the Church of the Nazarene, first
At one time, an impressive equestrian statue of a Union cavalry trooper from the Civil
More than 4,000 people had crammed into tiny Dover, Pennsylvania, on November 23, 1907, to
Stuart’s two-day ride through York County caused calamity for the citizenry. His division’s horses were