A draft dodger from York PA fled his hometown via a train headed south to Baltimore. Detectives and army guards identified and arrested him.
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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.
A York PA resident is victimized by a pickpocket while riding a railroad train south from York to Baltimore just days before the battle of Antietam.
College Hill College was a landmark north of York during the mid-19th century. A newspaper editor from Lewistown PA described his visit in June 1862.
Convalescing soldiers in York’s army hospitals marched through the streets to the train station to martial music carrying an anti-copperhead banner.
David Small, the Democratic chief burgess of York PA, had to call for the local constables to protect him from angry Union soldiers.
A local story claims that Confederate General John B. Gordon spent a fitful night in the guestroom of the Magee/Rewalt house in Wrightsville after being attacked by a falling canopy over his bed.
When the Rebels rode into Hanover, PA, during the Gettysburg Campaign, a local jeweler desperately tried to escape with much of his store inventory.
York County was a Democratic stronghold in the 1800s. After the Gettysburg Campaign, a wave of anti-Lincoln sentiment swept through the county.
On July 1, 1863, a group of Confederate soldiers visited this barn that once stood