Cannonball

…regiment contained more than 200 men (some evidence from the York County damage claims suggest that at least one part of the regiment camped east of York along the road…

…and damage claims from cavalry patrols operating in this region. One can surmise that John Gordon’s infantry brigade was with the guns (Tanner had accompanied Gordon’s column since leaving Gettysburg…

…map shows the likely route, pieced together from surviving Confederate and civilian accounts, as well as from studying the postwar damage claims filed with the court system. These sworn testimonies…

…the Conewago Creek. Rifle pits are also reported in other Civil War damage claims from farmers who lived along the NCR where the 20th PVM established a defensive perimeter. Among…

…the farmers merely called them “Stuart’s cavalry” or “Rebel cavalry” in their damage claims. Thirty-year-old Col. John R. Chambliss, Jr., son of an ardent states’ rights Confederate congressman, commanded the…

…Bridge. Gordon’s various regiments likely occupied at least three farms in the area, plus Altland’s. I have read through the damage claims from Altland’s neighbors, who housed parts of the…

…farmers, and terrified women and children. Hundreds of residents later filed damage claims delineating what they Confederates had taken. Henry L. King had been hit hard. Very hard. Rebels had…

…He is one of the very few line officers named in the more than 800 damage claims filed after the war by victims in York County. On Saturday, June 27,…

…Jim McClure’s entry on the York Town Blog. The red boxes show the farmers in the Big Mount area who filed damage claims with the state following the Civil War….

…action years after the war to recover his money, claiming that the Federal government should recompense him $65 for his loss. Like most York countians who also filed damage claims…