Edward L. Schroeder may be the first soldier from York County PA injured during the Civil War. A comrade bayoneted him during a routine drill in York.
Tag: Camp Scott
Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers
In my last post, we looked at a description of York from a soldier, A.J.G.,
Within weeks of the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, the U. S.
At the start of the Civil War, across both the North and South tens of
The 3rd Pennsylvania Infantry, under the command of Colonel Francis C. Minier of Blair County,
Pennsylvania and Ohio troops at Camp Scott in York, Pa. – May 25, 1861 (Harper’s
Shortly after the start of the Civil War, a Gettysburg-area soldier in the 2nd Pennsylvania
Union troops train at Camp Scott in York PA in the spring of 1861. Among
This sketch from the New York Illustrated News shows Camp Scott, a Civil War training