In 1897, Lord Byron Green of Fleetville, PA began publishing his memoirs of the Civil War in a Scranton newspaper.

On Christmas Day 1860, the Philadelphia Inquirer took a swipe at South Carolina's secession with a holiday op-ed.

"This is one of the mostly lovely places that I have seen since I bid farewell to my native home, in Ohio."

Lieutenant James M. Carver of the 104th Pennsylvania designed a barracks that became famous in Washington during the Civil War.