Columbia officials arrested a York man for carelessness for leaving two wagons of gunpowder where some boys could steal some for their amusement.
Civil War newspapers Archives
York newspaperman David Small, an ardent Democrat, questioned why President Lincoln did not send his own son off to war while ordering others to do so.
Edward L. Schroeder may be the first soldier from York County PA injured during the Civil War. A comrade bayoneted him during a routine drill in York.
A drunken Union army officer allegedly pushed one of his men from a train near Shrewsbury Station, PA. They were escorting Rebel prisoners to Elmira.
During the Civil War, all sorts of false rumors and exaggerated tales spread following major battles. A newspaper in Chicago repeated tales that Stonewall Jackson captured York PA.