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    Armed Confederates in the Capital – Tennessee Veterans Visit Washington, D.C.
    Guest Contributor
    • Jul 9, 2020

    Armed Confederates in the Capital – Tennessee Veterans Visit Washington, D.C.

    EJ Murphy stumbled across this story of Confederate veterans in Washington in the pages of a Scranton newspaper from 1907.
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    "Ladies of York" - An Ohio soldier's letter thanking nurses at York General Hospital
    Kendrick Gibbs
    • Jun 15, 2020

    "Ladies of York" - An Ohio soldier's letter thanking nurses at York General Hospital

    "This is one of the mostly lovely places that I have seen since I bid farewell to my native home, in Ohio."
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    A soldier's obituary - Corporal Bently Stark of the 57th Pennsylvania
    Jake Wynn
    • May 7, 2020

    A soldier's obituary - Corporal Bently Stark of the 57th Pennsylvania

    An obituary for a Pennsylvania soldier who died of disease in August 1862.
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    “I saw the first meeting between Grant and Lee” – A Pennsylvania private’s Appomattox recollection
    Codie Eash
    • Apr 12, 2020

    “I saw the first meeting between Grant and Lee” – A Pennsylvania private’s Appomattox recollection

    Two decades after Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, a Pennsylvania veteran sparked a fierce debate over the memory of the event.
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    "The Glad Notes of Victory" - A poem for Confederate surrender in April 1865
    Jake Wynn
    • Apr 11, 2020

    "The Glad Notes of Victory" - A poem for Confederate surrender in April 1865

    The Miners' Journal of Pottsville, PA published a victory poem written by a local man after Confederate surrender in April 1865.
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    "Joy In Richmond" - Lancaster County's Response to the fall of the Confederate capital
    Kendrick Gibbs
    • Apr 10, 2020

    "Joy In Richmond" - Lancaster County's Response to the fall of the Confederate capital

    How did the community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania react to news of Richmond's fall in 1865?
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    Medal returned to its proper owner 40 years after it was lost at the Battle of Antietam
    Jake Wynn
    • Jan 31, 2020

    Medal returned to its proper owner 40 years after it was lost at the Battle of Antietam

    William W. Warren lost a medal he wore around his neck after being wounded and captured at the Battle of Antietam.
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    "One common calamity" - A November 1864 lament over the Civil War's devastating costs
    Jake Wynn
    • Nov 8, 2019

    "One common calamity" - A November 1864 lament over the Civil War's devastating costs

    A newspaper editorial lamented the horrific costs of the Civil War in a November 1864 editorial in the Pottsville "Miners' Journal."
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    A "Wildcat" in Libby Prison - Letters from Stephen Sartwell's POW Experience
    Kendrick Gibbs
    • Jul 26, 2019

    A "Wildcat" in Libby Prison - Letters from Stephen Sartwell's POW Experience

    A Jefferson County native wrote to his wife about his time as a prisoner-of-war and how he felt to finally be free.
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    "The destructiveness of war" - The Altoona Tribune's visit to the Antietam battlefield
    Jake Wynn
    • Jul 23, 2019

    "The destructiveness of war" - The Altoona Tribune's visit to the Antietam battlefield

    In the days after the Battle of Antietam, a team of Pennsylvania journalists arrived on the battlefield to report on what they saw.
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    “A Terrible, and Yet Glorious Reality”: The Adams Sentinel on the Immediate Meaning of Gettysburg
    Codie Eash
    • Jul 12, 2019

    “A Terrible, and Yet Glorious Reality”: The Adams Sentinel on the Immediate Meaning of Gettysburg

    An Adams County newspaper editor grappled with the meaning and consequences of the Battle of Gettysburg in the weeks after the fight.
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    "A deplorable scene" - A description of Gettysburg after the battle
    Jake Wynn
    • Jul 7, 2019

    "A deplorable scene" - A description of Gettysburg after the battle

    A reporter from Harrisburg's Patriot and Union newspaper described the scene at Gettysburg in the days after the 1863 battle.
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