Cannonball

I recently posted a blog entry about a small engagement during the Gettysburg Campaign in

“Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…” Millions

In our last post, 19th-century historian George R. Prowell had interviewed former Hanover shopkeeper Joseph

A couple of years ago, I wrote a series of blog posts (the “In the

David McMurtrie Gregg (shown above in this photo from the Library of Congress) commanded a

This historical marker along East Canal Road in Dover, Pennsylvania, commemorates the invasion of this

As the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War approaches in 2011, author James McClure

Gettysburg photograph courtesy of Becky and Mike Esterbank of Erie, Pa. Used by permission. Jim

Old postcard depicting a Confederate cavalryman (from the author’s collection). York County author, historian, and

Joseph Menges lived on this prosperous York County, PA farm during the Civil War. The