Image collector Ron Coddington shares 100 photos from his Military Images magazine and the stories of the soldiers depicted.
Image collector Ron Coddington shares 100 photos from his Military Images magazine and the stories of the soldiers depicted.
Five Confederate soldiers who died in York PA from wounds suffered at Gettysburg are buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
A drunken Union army officer allegedly pushed one of his men from a train near Shrewsbury Station, PA. They were escorting Rebel prisoners to Elmira.
William B. Franklin was the highest ranking Union officer from York, PA, during the Civil War. He made a daring escape after being captured by Rebels in Maryland in July 1864.
During the Civil War, all sorts of false rumors and exaggerated tales spread following major battles. A newspaper in Chicago repeated tales that Stonewall Jackson captured York PA.
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.
Confederate Gen. John B. Gordon led a brigade at York and Wrightsville during the Gettysburg Campaign. In March 1894, the author/politician returned to York to give a speech at the Opera House.
When the Rebels rode into Hanover, PA, during the Gettysburg Campaign, a local jeweler desperately tried to escape with much of his store inventory.
The burning of Chambersburg remains controversial in south-central Pennsylvania to this day. Once known as
More than 11,000 Confederate soldiers passed through York County, Pennsylvania, in the last days of