Showing posts with label Battle of Antietam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of Antietam. Show all posts
Thursday, September 12, 2013

"Unharmed have I passed through where the dead and wounded were falling all around me" – Pvt. George Nickels, 89th NY

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In a December 2012 blog post ( read here ), I shared the fascinating letter of Pvt. George Nickels, of Co. F, 89th New York.  In that let...
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: 5th PA Emergency Militia

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Read the previous day here . After we enjoyed, more or less, a night's rest hardly worth mentioning we received marching orders witho...

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...

September 17, 1862: 7th PA Emergency Militia

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Before being sworn into state service for the "emergency", the 7th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia had been known as the 3rd Regim...

September 17, 1862: Byers' Independent Cavalry Co.

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Read the previous day here . Windy, signs of rain.  Left Spriggle's [Farm] at 7 A.M., for [Hagerstown] , where we reported to Gen. ...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Meet a Militiaman: Jacob C. Higgins (part I)

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In 1826, Jacob Higgins was born in Williamsburg, PA, in what would later become part of Blair County.  Growing up in a rugged, mountainous r...
Monday, August 15, 2011

The Pennsylvania Reserve Corps (part II)

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Check out The Pennsylvania Reserve Corps (Part I) here .   The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, still remains the bloodiest single ...
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 ...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Archive Find: Charley King, 49th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

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"All the rising generation is ruined by the heresy of secession" ~ Worthington G. Snethen Recently, I have been spending time tr...
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