Recent Posts Tagged With 'john b. gordon'

• Part 1 of Wrightsville video tour now on Gettysburg Daily

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 22:55 in yankees, york county, civilians, wrightsville, gettysburg campaign, confederates, columbia-wrightsville bridge, john b. gordon, gettysburg daily

  York County Heritage Trust sanctioned Civil War tour guide Scott L. Mingus, Sr. stands in front of the historic Strickler farmhouse off the Lincoln Highway near Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Confederates under Brig. Gen. John B. Gordon deployed near ...

• The Skirmish of Wrightsville, Part 2: The Comanches' Line of Approach

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 18:54 in york, yankees, wrightsville, gettysburg campaign, confederates, john b. gordon, northern central railway, elijah v. white

  The scenic Kreutz Creek in Hellam Township, York County, Pennsylvania. This creek roughly parallels the old rail bed of the Northern Central Railway and played a role in the June 28, 1863, Skirmish of Wrightsville. This was the line of approach use...

• Hard-working Rebels save Wrightsville houses as bridge burns

  Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 07:17 in civilians, wrightsville, gettysburg campaign, confederates, john b. gordon

  This impressive old stone mansion in downtown Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, has a storied history, once serving as a hotel and tavern. During the June 28 - 29, 1863, occupation of the town by a Confederate expeditionary force under Brig. Gen. John B....

• Confederates labored to save burning buildings in Wrightsville during Gettysburg Campaign

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 06:55 in civilians, wrightsville, gettysburg campaign, confederates, columbia-wrightsville bridge, john b. gordon

  This historic marker was installed last year as part of the Pennsylvania Civil War Trails program. It commemorates the efforts by Georgia Confederate soldiers under Brig. Gen. John B. Gordon to extinguish a series of fires in downtown Wrightsville,...

• A Georgian recalls his time in York

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 22:53 in york, civilians, gettysburg campaign, confederates, john b. gordon

  Many of you know that a publisher has asked me to research and write yet another book in my popular series of human interest stories. In the never ending quest for fresh material, I was perusing an old copy of Confederate Veteran last night when I st...

• Special 146th Anniversary Civil War book signing in Wrightsville

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 11:23 in books, wrightsville, scott mingus, gettysburg campaign, columbia-wrightsville bridge, john b. gordon, flames beyond gettysburg

  I will be signing copies of Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863 at the annual Wrightsville river festival on Sunday night, June 28, 2009 from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the John Wright building on Front Street. This coincides w...

• The skirmish at Wrightsville

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 07:05 in yankees, wrightsville, gettysburg campaign, confederates, columbia-wrightsville bridge, john b. gordon, granville haller

  Copyright 2007, Scott Mingus and Tom Poston, all rights reserved. Map of the June 28, 1863 skirmish of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. No reproduction without written permission. On the late afternoon of Sunday June 28, 1863, more than 1500 Confedera...

• A local legend - the Andrew J. Menges farm in Jackson Township

  Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 09:37 in civilians, spring grove, gettysburg campaign, confederates, john b. gordon

  This very impressive homestead was in 1863 the Andrew J. Menges farm near Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, in Jackson Township, York County. It's located on Roth's Church Road near the modern school complex. It's just north of the June 27, 1863, campsit...

• Confederate campsite near York

  Posted on Friday May 15th, 2009 at 06:49 in york, underground railroad, lincoln highway, gettysburg campaign, confederates, john b. gordon, confederate camp sites, confederate camp site, york valley inn

  The York Valley Inn once stood at 2805 E. Market Street near York in what is now Springettsbury Township (part of Spring Garden Township during the American Civil War). This photograph from the archives of the Library of Congress shows the stone st...

• A Florida man reviews Flames Beyond Gettysburg

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 06:39 in books, york, wrightsville, gettysburg campaign, john b. gordon, flames beyond gettysburg, gettysburg books

  Jim Durney of Tampa Bay wrote on various Civil War and book review sites: "Histories of the Gettysburg Campaign dismiss The Pennsylvanian response with no more than a page. The hapless state militia breaks at the first rumor of an attack, dropping a...

• Some of Gordon's Georgians who fought at Wrightsville

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 22:16 in york, battle of gettysburg, wrightsville, georgia history, gettysburg campaign, confederates, john b. gordon

  Pvt. James Thomas Branch, Company A, "Irwin County Cowboys," 61st Georgia Volunteers All three photos on this blog entry are copyright 2009 Jerry Ivey and are used with written permission. With the publicity created by my recently released Flames ...

• 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 ...

• Letters from York woman chronicles the Confederate occupation

  Posted on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 04:42 in york, civilians, jubal early, gettysburg campaign, confederates, john b. gordon, cassandra small, occupation of york

  Photo courtesy of the York County Heritage Trust. Cassandra Morris Small was a 34-year-old single woman living with her parents, wealthy industrialist Philip A. Small and his wife, in a house on E. Market Street across from the Yorktowne Hotel. Sh...