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150 years ago this month in York County, Pa. – Pvt. Henry Shultz
Henry Shultz was a 17-year-old teenager in eastern York County, Pennsylvania, in September 1861. He worked as a hired hand on a farm east of the borough of York near the road to Wrightsville. Like so...
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Road trip! Second Battle of Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley: Part 1
I recently spent a wonderful morning touring the Second Winchester battlefield in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley with fellow authors Scott C. Patchan and Eric J. Wittenberg. Eric and I are researching...
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150 years ago today: June 12, 1863: York County’s 87th Pa. begins the fight...
This old postcard shows the Hillman Tollgate south of Winchester, Virginia, during the 19th century. One hundred fifty years ago, this would have been a familiar site to the soldiers of the 87th...
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150 years ago today: June 13, 1863: 2 companies of the 87th Pa. fight at...
The impressive 3-story Pritchard home sits atop a high hill near Kernstown, Virginia, just south of Winchester. Fighting swirled around this property in the battle of Kernstown, as well as at Second...
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150 years ago today: June 14, 1863: The 87th Pa. fights at Winchester, Va.
The men and officers of the 87th Pennsylvania spent a restless night on June 13-14 in the entrenchments and rifle pits near Winchester, Virginia. They had been reunited with the survivors of the two...
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150 years ago today: June 15, 1863: Disaster at Carter’s Woods
June 15, 1863, was perhaps the longest day for the 87th Pennsylvania in the entire Civil War, perhaps only rivaled by the brutal losses at Monocacy a little more than a year later. Union Maj. Gen....
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150 years ago today: June 16, 1863: The bulk of the 87th PA seeks safety
Tourists stroll through the restored Harpers Ferry National Park. Back in June 1863, Harpers (then primarily spelled as Harper’s) Ferry offered a place of temporary refuge for thousands of refugees...
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150 years ago today: The 87th Pennsylvania regroups in Bloody Run, Pa. after...
The 87th Pennsylvania Infantry, which hailed primarily from York and Adams counties, had suffered through the disastrous defeat at the battle of Carter’s Woods on June 15, 1863, north of Winchester,...
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