…Americans pushed to be moved to a regular POW camp. From the sound of artillery fire, they knew the Eastern Front was near, and they didn’t want to be there…
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…to camp. The officer in charge of the camp, Captain Lawrence Thomas, said they would not be due any punishment because they had not broken any “International Law.” Click the…
…Camp Como, Miss. Lieut. Richard G. Eustice, former member of the faculty of East Berlin High school, is at Goodfellow field, San Angelo, Texas, where he is teaching meteorology From…
…soon. Jerry.” As George points out, Corporal Brinton’s post was as a guard at the Prisoner of War camp at Stewartstown. For more information on the camp and its German…
…training camp at Gettysburg. The soldiers also got themselves arrested for drunkenness or being disorderly, a charge that sometimes meant consorting with the local young women. Excuses flew liberally: The…
Pass issued to Samuel Small by General Early’s aide-de-camp. Did one of P.A. & S. Small’s grist mills burn during the Civil War? Yes. Was it burned by the General…
…then “…swam and crawled across a vast swamp and when nearly exhausted, he saw a camp light directly ahead.” Luckily for him, it turned out to be the camp of…
…War troops since the beginning of the conflict. They trained at Camp Scott at the old York County fairgrounds and on Penn Common. During the winter of 1861-62 the Sixth…
…Church, leaving a bequest in his will to establish a trust. Neville Mitchell Smith stood by her Episcopal roots. She was instrumental in establishing Camp Betty Washington in Spring Garden…
…Baltimore to the Hungerford Packing company camp to harvest beans, corn and tomatoes. Many came each year while the husbands and fathers stayed in Baltimore to work their factory jobs….