The images on the nightly news are searing and unforgettable. Long trenches being dug in
Tag: Cemeteries
Lebanon Cemetery on N. George St. in York PA contains the graves of several black US soldiers, including Sgt. Joseph Howard, 5th Mass Colored Cavalry.
The grave of a Yorker, George B. Berry of the 10th US Cavalry “Buffalo Soldiers”, is among the sites being restored and marked in Lebanon Cemetery.
The battle of Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863, saw both heroes and cowards, brave men
John Hufnagel of the Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society sent me the above photograph from
Several thousand men from York County, Pennsylvania, served in the Union army during the Civil
The 3rd Pennsylvania Infantry, under the command of Colonel Francis C. Minier of Blair County,
York Civil War researcher and author Dennis W. Brandt is perhaps best known for his
In my previous Cannonball post, I showed photos of the grave of Confederate General Jubal
For three days in late June 1863, the phrase “General Early” was quite familiar to