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Saturday, May 11, 2019

Faithful to Every Duty: The Life and Death of Lieutenant Henry Clay Jackson, Company G, 48th Pennsylvania

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Lieutenant Henry Clay Jackson (Courtesy of Ronn Palm; Museum of Civil War Images)  In the Spring of 1861, twenty-four-year-old Henry C...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

"A Good Man Gone:" The Story of Private John C. Cole, of Pottsville: Husband, Father, Soldier, 43rd United States Colored Troops

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John Cole was forty-four years old in the spring of 1864; a shoemaker from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, who was able to comfortably provide for...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019

"Distressing Occurrence:" The Tragic, Untimely Death of Sergeant Samuel Clemens, Co. E, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry

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Samuel Clemens survived the very worst of the American Civil War, making it through all the trying campaigns and hellish fights in which th...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

At Long Last. . .A Regimental History of the 96th Pennsylvania!

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The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War [Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishing Co., 2018] The 48th Pennsylvania Vol...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

"They Fell While Gallantly Defending a Just and Holy Cause:" The Dead of the 48th Pennsylvania at Fredericksburg

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Currier and Ives' Depiction of Fredericksburg [Library of Congress]  The attack of Sturgis's division of the 9th Army Cor...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Soldier Story: Private William Straw, Musician/Fifer, Company K, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry

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I always enjoy seeing a 'new' face of the 48th Pennsylvania, an image, that is, one of its soldiers I had never before seen, and th...