The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Currier & Ives~The Battle of Roanoke Island * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * February 7-8, 2012, will mark the 150th Anniversary of ...

Burnside's Fleet Arrives From Fortress Monroe * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "On or about the 12th of January, 1862," sai...

Brigadier General Thomas Williams ( www.generalsandbrevets.com ) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * During first winter of t...

New Year's Day, 1862, found the 48th Pennsylvania encamped along the sandy shores of North Carolina. The men had been soldiers for just ...

Union Soldiers Drill at Camp Winfield~Hatteras, North Carolina * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Our first impressions of Ha...

One of the most memorable highlights of this past year at Antietam. . .my sixth, if you count my first year as a volunteer. . .was walking i...