Author and blogger Scott Mingus tours the free Military Memorial Museum in Crossville, Tennessee.
Civil War Archives
The commander of the Union forces in south-central PA reported on his investigation that York’s residents welcomed Confederate invaders.
Winchester, VA, is an excellent Civil War tourism destination, with multiple battlefields, museums, and historical sites.
In late October 1860, Republicans of York County PA held a torchlight parade in York to support Abraham Lincoln for president.
Abraham Lincoln disappointed a large crowd in York PA on Feb. 23, 1861, when assassination rumors changed his planned route to Baltimore.
Amos Griest of the Foustown area of York County PA was a conductor in the covert Underground Railroad in the 1840s and 50s
John L. Shillito of York County and his friends used whiskey to compel an abandoned Rebel mule to take them to Gettysburg after the battle.
York County PA author Scott Mingus has several of his popular local history talks available on YouTube or Vimeo. Here are links to them.
Dillsburg PA native Levi Mumper, raised in Gettysburg, was a Civil War veteran and a prominent photographer of the battlefield.
In Nov. 1864, Maryland photographer Theophilus Munder took over the space in York’s Centre Hall vacated by Glenalvin Goodridge.