The Rev. Charles West Thompson pastored St. John’s Church in York, PA during the Civil War. He was also a nationally known poet whose work appeared in newspapers across the country in the 1840s, 50s, and 60s.
Civil War Archives
The York (PA) Civil War Round Table welcomes Dr. Charlie Fennell on Sept. 19 for his lecture on the 1st US Sharpshooters (Berdan’s Sharpshooters) at Gettysburg. The free meeting is at 7 pm at the York County History Center.
When the Rebels rode into Hanover, PA, during the Gettysburg Campaign, a local jeweler desperately tried to escape with much of his store inventory.
In this new book from LSU Press, Professor Lesley Gordon studies “a broken regiment,” the 16th Connecticut Infantry, which broke and ran in its first battle at Antietam and later surrendered en mass during a Rebel attack on Plymouth, North Carolina. Most of the men ended up at Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
A homesick soldier in the 130th Pennsylvania sat down in his camp near Falmouth, Virginia, in early 1863 to write a letter home to his loved ones. He included some homespun poetry.
I have long enjoyed speaking with living historians of various periods, those hobbyists who like
Ye Olde Valley Inn was a familiar sight to generations of York Countians, set alongside
In the 1850s, John “Bossy” Johnson, a black man living in York, Pennsylvania, was accused
Jonathan Mifflin was from a long and broad line of Quakers who settled in the
John Hufnagel of the Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society graciously sent me the above newspaper