Convalescing soldiers in York’s army hospitals marched through the streets to the train station to martial music carrying an anti-copperhead banner.
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David Small, the Democratic chief burgess of York PA, had to call for the local constables to protect him from angry Union soldiers.
Pro-Lincoln newspapers across the North pilloried York’s “copperhead” citizens and their chief burgess, David Small, for surrendering York to the Rebels in 1863. It remains a controversial decision to this day.
York County was a Democratic stronghold in the 1800s. After the Gettysburg Campaign, a wave of anti-Lincoln sentiment swept through the county.
For more than 150 years, residents and writers have debated whether the civic leaders of
It was March 4, 1861. After a bitter and contentious election that saw, for the
On Sunday, June 28, 1863, Brigadier General John Brown Gordon led his Georgia infantry brigade
Politics has often been a bitter affair, dividing communities, families, churches, and businesses. So divisive,
After the Civil War, many veterans across the reunited nation strove to keep the memories
On Sunday morning, June 28, 1863, more than 6,000 veteran Confederate infantrymen, accompanied by mounted