Recent Posts Tagged With 'hanover junction'

• How many Confederates invaded York County?

  Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 05:43 in york, jefferson, dover, other places, hanover, confederate soldiers, wrightsville, spring grove, gettysburg campaign, confederates, dillsburg, hanover junction

  Old postcard depicting a Confederate cavalryman (from the author's collection). York County author, historian, and Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide John T. Krepps recently posted a comment on Cannonball wanting to know if anyone had ever co...

• Colonel William B. Thomas commanded York County\'s defenses during the Gettysburg Campaign: Part 2

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 05:16 in york, yankees, wrightsville, gettysburg campaign, hanover junction, york haven, 20th pennsylvania volunteer militia, william b. thomas

  Here is some more information on Colonel William B. Thomas, a prominent businessman and abolitionist who had helped organize the Republican Party in Pennsylvania. He was in command of the 20th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia that defended York Count...

• York County Civil War Border Claims Database now on-line at YCHT

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 21:08 in york, jefferson, dover, other places, york county, hanover, civilians, wrightsville, spring grove, gettysburg campaign, dillsburg, hanover junction

  Joseph Menges lived on this prosperous York County, PA farm during the Civil War. The Franklin Township farmer filed a damage claim for $225 citing the loss of two horses to "Stuart's Cavalry" during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign). He lost a 14-yr-o...

• J.E.B. Stuart disrupts a York County funeral

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 05:40 in civilians, j.e.b. stuart, gettysburg campaign, confederates, hanover junction, confederate cavalry, north codorus township, zeigler's church

  Historic Zeigler's Church Cemetery in southern York County, Pennsylvania, contains the graves of many of the pioneers and early settlers of the Codorus Valley region. Several Civil War veterans are buried here, as well as civilian farmers whose liv...

• In the Footsteps of J.E.B. Stuart: North Codorus woman stole her horse back from Rebel raiders

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 05:29 in jefferson, farms, civilians, gettysburg campaign, confederates, hanover junction, fitzhugh lee, north codorus township

  The farm of Henry Hoff III during the Civil War; all photos by Scott Mingus taken in November 2009. Taken from Zeigler's Church Road looking west. This typical Pennsylvania German farm is tucked in a shallow valley paralleling Zeigler's Church Roa...

• Union militia campsite near Larue in Springfield Township

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 07:22 in yankees, civilians, larue, gettysburg campaign, confederates, hanover junction, springfield township, union campsites, 20th pennsylvania volunteer militia, william b. thomas

  During the week before the Battle of Gettysburg, the attention of the Union Department of the Susquehanna's commander, Major General Darius N. Couch, was on protecting vital railroad bridges and other transport and communications routes in south-ce...

• Lincoln\'s funeral train passed through York County

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 18:50 in york, abraham lincoln, jefferson, lincoln, railroads, hanover junction, emigsville, york haven, lincoln funeral train

  The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned the residents of York County, Pennsylvania, despite the fact that most voters had twice cast their ballots for the Democratic opposition candidate in the elections of 1860 and 1864. Political d...

• The last train out of York before Jubal Early arrived

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 06:31 in york, railroads, civilians, wrightsville, gettysburg campaign, hanover junction, northern central railway

  Bond certificate issued by the Northern Central Railway in 1917, not too many years after its long-time employee and chief engineer George Small retired from its service. He piloted the last train out of York, Pennsylvania, before elements of Rober...

• Is this the railcar used by Lincoln during his trip to Gettysburg?

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 06:37 in abraham lincoln, lincoln, hanover, railroads, civilians, gettysburg address, gettysburg campaign, hanover junction, hanover branch railroad

  This old photograph is courtesy of theunfinishedwork.com, a website for a recent fictional book on the Gettysburg Campaign by Hanover native Frank Meredith. His well crafted novel includes the Battle of Hanover on June 30, 1863, and other York and ...

• Wounded Ohio soldier boards the governor's special train at Hanover Junction

  Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 06:42 in yankees, lincoln, gettysburg address, hanover junction

  Dignitaries, politicians, reporters, and soldiers all appear in this November 1863 photograph (courtesy of the Library of Congress). Taken facing north at Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania, it shows a part of the crowd that have arrived with Governor ...

• Northern Central Railway bore the expense to rebuild York County bridges burned by the Rebels

  Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 21:13 in railroad, other places, railroads, gettysburg campaign, hanover junction, u.s. army hospital, northern central railway, railroad bridges

  Philadelphia Press, August 6, 1863....

• The U.S. Sanitary Commission tends to the wounded at Hanover Junction following the Battle of Gettysburg

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 07:12 in yankees, civilians, gettysburg campaign, hanover junction, united states sanitary commission

  Following the cessation of the fighting at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in early July 1863, a huge issue emerged - how to deal with the thousands of wounded men left behind by the two armies as they left for Maryland and Virginia? Most houses, barns, ...

• Artillery tubes dedicated at Hanover Junction

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 06:34 in yankees, hanover junction, local acw events, civil war artillery

  All photos courtesy of York County Civil War buff and webmaster Randy Drais. A local reenactment group, including members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), provides the honor guard for the dedication ceremonies held this past...

• Scott Mingus to speak at York CWRT March meeting

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 05:47 in york, railroads, wrightsville, scott mingus, gettysburg campaign, confederates, hanover junction, york cwrt, columbia-wrightsville bridge, john b. gordon, york civil war round table

  Manchester Township author and historian Scott L. Mingus, Sr. will be the featured guest speaker at the March 18, 2009, meeting of the York Civil War Round Table. The meeting is FREE and open to the public, so everyone is welcome! It is at 7:00 PM ...

• Where did J.E.B. Stuart hold his June 30 council of war?

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 05:25 in mills, civilians, grist mills, gettysburg campaign, confederates, hanover junction, north codorus township, york county taverns

  Perhaps history was changed in this old farmhouse in rural North Codorus Township in scenic southern York County, Pennsylvania. Then again, perhaps not. On the evening of June 30, 1863, Confederate Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart was leadi...

• Lincoln's 200th Birthday Celebration / Monument Dedication at Hanover Junction

  Posted on Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 14:37 in abraham lincoln, lincoln, york county, railroads, hanover junction, local acw events

  February 12, 2009, marks the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. I attended the dedication ceremonies this afternoon at Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania, where Lincoln changed trains en route to deliver the Get...