Pro-Lincoln newspapers across the North pilloried York’s “copperhead” citizens and their chief burgess, David Small, for surrendering York to the Rebels in 1863. It remains a controversial decision to this day.
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On July 18, 2018, please join the York Civil War Round Table as they welcome author Joe Mieczkowski as their featured guest speaker.
York County was a Democratic stronghold in the 1800s. After the Gettysburg Campaign, a wave of anti-Lincoln sentiment swept through the county.
Abraham Lincoln’s northbound train chugged into Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania, on the late afternoon of Wednesday,
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In Part 1 of this brief two-part series, we looked at some photos I took
As the chill winds of late November swept across the northern United States in 1863,
The vast public holdings of the U. S. government include thousands of vintage photographs from
For more than 150 years, residents and writers have debated whether the civic leaders of
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