The last of June 1863 were momentous times for the citizens of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Situated
Railroads Archives
During the late spring of 1863, railroad and civic officials throughout south-central Pennsylvania feared that
John A. Martin, like many other local veterans of the Civil War, made plans in
As Major General Jubal Early’s long column of Confederate soldiers reached Weigelstown, Pennsylvania, on Sunday
In our last two Cannonball blog posts, we looked at the preparations in the city
In my last post, I shared an old 1913 newspaper account of the preparations in
Let’s go back in our minds to Saturday afternoon, June 27, 1863, in scenic southern
Joseph Leib enjoyed a long career with the Northern Central Railway, Hanover Branch Railroad, and
Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, has a long and storied history. A young English immigrant, William
This detail from a November 1863 photograph by a member of the Matthew Brady firm