The leading newspaper in York PA strongly supported the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and chastised the governor for obstructing it after the Christiana Riot.
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Columbia officials arrested a York man for carelessness for leaving two wagons of gunpowder where some boys could steal some for their amusement.
York newspaperman David Small, an ardent Democrat, questioned why President Lincoln did not send his own son off to war while ordering others to do so.
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.
York’s chief burgess, Democrat David Small, endorsed famed Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin as a possible candidate for PA governor in 1863. It was not to be.
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.
Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers
Throughout the Civil War, in towns both large and small, North and South, people gathered
Politics has often been a bitter affair, dividing communities, families, churches, and businesses. So divisive,
During the Gettysburg Campaign, more than 6,000 Confederate troops occupied the vicinity of York, Pennsylvania,