Showing posts with label 2nd Pennsylvania Emergency Militia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2nd Pennsylvania Emergency Militia. Show all posts
Monday, September 24, 2012

September 20-24, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (J. Witmer)

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If you've been following the adventures of some of the Emergency Militiamen that I have been posting over the Sesquicentennial, my apol...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

September 19, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (J. Witmer)

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Read the previous day here .   We awoke feeling very chilly and damp in consequence of the very heavy dew which fell during the night, ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

September 18, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (L. Richards)

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Read the previous day here . We waited hour after hour for our train, but in vain.  Wrote letters home beside the railroad tracks, on th...

September 18, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (J. Witmer)

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Read the previous day here .   This morning was quite an eventful one, in the movements of the militia, the men just now appear to unde...
Monday, September 17, 2012

September 17, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (L. Richards)

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Read the previous day here .     150 years ago today, while the Battle of Antietam raged...    Drilled in the morning in the a...

September 17, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (J. Witmer)

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Read the previous day here . We were awakened just before daylight with orders to pack our knapsacks and prepare to march. We hastily got...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

September 16, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (L. Richards)

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Read the previous day here .   Part of the morning was devoted to foraging at the neighboring farmhouses, but little or nothing could be...

September 16, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (J. Witmer)

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Read the previous day here . We started about sunrise and marched down the road toward Greencastle in search of our regiment, not knowing...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

September 15, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (L. Richards)

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Read the previous day here .   We are now down to regular army fare, our bill consisting of rations of bread, meat, coffee, and that wel...

September 15, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (J. Witmer)

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After returning home from his adventure with the Emergency Militia, John Witmer, of Co. H 2nd PA Emergency Militia, wrote an extensive lette...
Friday, September 14, 2012

September 14, 1862: 2nd PA Emergency Militia (L. Richards)

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Louis Richards, of Reading, a member of Co. G, 2nd PA Emergency Militia, published his daily thoughts years after the war, but his subtle sa...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

An Emergency Man Visits Antietam

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With the Battle of Antietam over, and the Rebel army back across the Potomac River, the men of the Pennsylvania Emergency Militia who had en...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Mechanicsburg's Irving Female College

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When the 2nd Pennsylvania Emergency Militia left Harrisburg for the "seat of war", they, like other regiments, were speedily trans...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

The Pennsylvania Reserve Corps (part I)

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Recently, while digging through the collections of the Pennsylvania State Archives, I unearthed a very interesting letter written after the ...
Friday, July 15, 2011

"Some of the men...were walking armories of miscellaneous weapons"

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Louis Richards, a Private in Co. G, 2 nd Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, wrote in 1883 of his experiences in September 1862.  Among his man...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Reading, PA Responds to the Emergency

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In September of 1862, Louis Richards was a Private in the "5th Ward Guards" from Reading, PA.  Eventually his unit would be sworn ...