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Captain Joseph Douglas Ayars Company I 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Inscription on the reverse reads "Yours Truely J.D. Ayars Capt. Co. I 18th PA. Cav". It took some effort to identify as he has his last name spelled both as Ayar and Ayer on different documents. It appears he used Ayar in his own...

(This is not General, but he is a small black dog who looks like he's had a disturbing premonition.) One indication of the high regard soldiers and veterans held for their dogs is the dogs’ frequent inclusion in memoirs and regimental histories. More rare is a dog’s obituary in a newspaper. A...

Grainy, indistinct, best I could pull from an LoC stereoview. This is one end of the public square in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. July, 1864. General Couch's worst fears when being stripped of troops were realized. Citizens of Chambersburg paid the price. These images are of what was left. July...

Does anyone know the real origin of "Black your boots!" relative to the excerpt provided below? There's a "rumor" on some other sites that "black your boots" was 19th century slang for a sex act. I tried to search for other instances where the phrase was used in connection with the Civil War...

Date/Time/Location: July 2 / 6:50 p. m. / Emmitsburg Road Participants: Union: 1st Massachusetts Regiment (deployed as skirmishers) – estimate 18 officers, 303 enlisted men 26th Pennsylvania Regiment – estimate 24 officers, 341 enlisted men Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery – six 12-Pounder...

"Although prices tended to fluctuate with the season, in the long run, they fell throughout the antebellum period. For example, in 1830 anthracite coal sold for about $11 per ton. Ten years later, the price had dropped to $7 per ton and by 1860 anthracite sold for about $5.50 a ton in New York...

I was struck by this image when I ran across it online. It is of 20-year-old William J. Reichard of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Reichard "saw the elephant" at Antietam and survived. The 128th Pennsylvania was a rookie regiment at Antietam. It was recruited in Berks, Bucks, and Lehigh counties and...

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1860/manufactures/1860c-05.pdf?# By state: Pennsylvania 172 New Jersey 165 Massachusetts 54 New Hampshire 43 Virginia 19 Kentucky (est.) 10 Maryland (est.) 6 If a person looks at the disaggregated manufacturing statistics for 1860, one has...

Clement L. Vallandigham’s name is probably not well-known to most Pennsylvanians, but in the 1850s and 1860s, he was a celebrity-politician with close ties to the state. Elected to represent Ohio in Congress, Vallandigham was a Confederate sympathizer who empathized with Southern slave owners...

The shattered Sherrick property, house, outbuildings and barn were filled with wounded by the time Alexander Gardner arrived three days post battle. Intent is only to give a September, 1862 eye witness view of post battle Antietam, Maryland. Overwhelmed, understaffed Army medical staff did...

The Waynesburg Messenger., Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. (1849-1901) Searchable issues of the Waynesburg Messenger.

The Kinzua Sky Walk was opened on September 15, 2011. When the Kinzua Viaduct was built in 1882, it was the longest (>2000 feet) and highest (300 feet) bridge in the world, about the same height in the center as the flame on top of the Statue of Liberty's torch. Iron was soon replaced with...

This photo, taken early in the 1970s, shows several of the remaining headstones in Lincoln Cemetery in Carlisle. The borough in 1971 began to remove the headstones to make way for a park. PHOTO BY JIM BRADLEY Decades after black cemetery’s gravestones removed and lost, families try to restore...

Schuylkill Frontier Girls complete project to repair Civil War veteran brothers' gravestones By Rachael Espaillat Posted: Jun 10, 2019 06:47 PM EDT Updated: Jun 10, 2019 06:47 PM EDT CRESSONA, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY - (WBRE/ WYOU)- Back in March, we told you about an area organization and a funeral...

Mysteries, marveling and bearing witness to History- trifecta with these old treasures. Bugler Jimmy Dugan, here in familiar early-war wear at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania in 1861 looks like he should have a skinned knee, sagging socks and soccer cleats. That bugle and uniform look like...

General Naglee, Major Gries, Lt. McDowell and Lt. Burke- Has all the battles in detail etc. https://books.google.com/books?id=m2MUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Much of history is buried beneath the dirt, and in the case of Alexandra Poulos’s home in Pennsylvania an entire era of history is buried beneath her house. She lived there nearly her entire life before she discovered the truth. When she hired masons to dig beneath her house there was no way...

I have a traditions pennsylvania flintlock rifle. It’s nice, well made and not bad for the price for an entry level. It looks like this https://www.traditionsfirearms.com/product/Pennsylvania-.50-cal-flintlock-walnut-blued The problem I have is the hight of the stock comb. It’s so high I can’t...

I found this interesting. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5511135/FBI-site-Civil-War-gold-rumored-buried.html

This desk was used at the White House and was from India originally. All furniture pictured is originally from Wheatland. Here are a couple more. The bath was installed by Harriet after Buchanan’s death. The piano is Harriet’s his niece. I visited James Buchanan’s Presidential home...