After the battle of Antietam, a special ammunition train set a new speed record as it raced through York County on its way from Washington to Hagerstown.
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York County normally voted Democratic in presidential elections throughout the 19th century. 1864 was no exception, when President Abraham Lincoln garnered less than 45% of the vote.
York County, PA, bordering slave state Maryland, had many residents that expressed pro-Southern sentiments during the Civil War, including at the polls. Sometimes, that support was more blatant.
I recently toured the Civil War Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, along the scenic western shore
Maj. Gen. George Brinton McClellan was one of the more enigmatic military officers in American
1861 entry from the records of a Philadelphia insane asylum for Clark H. Wells, an