Jake WynnApr 11, 2020"The Glad Notes of Victory" - A poem for Confederate surrender in April 1865The Miners' Journal of Pottsville, PA published a victory poem written by a local man after Confederate surrender in April 1865.
Jake WynnNov 8, 2019"One common calamity" - A November 1864 lament over the Civil War's devastating costsA newspaper editorial lamented the horrific costs of the Civil War in a November 1864 editorial in the Pottsville "Miners' Journal."