When the Rebels rode into Hanover, PA, during the Gettysburg Campaign, a local jeweler desperately tried to escape with much of his store inventory.
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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.
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
Sarah Emma Seifert, Mary (Bell) Squibb, and George Squibb lie side by side in the
61. The artillery bombardment preceding Pickett’s Charge could be heard in most of York County,
“The Confederates are here and I guess I will pull up.” With those brief words