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The 48th/150th: The 48th's Last Battle: The Attack on Fort Mahone: April 2, 1865
. . .Where Gowen Fell. . .Fort Mahone Today Throughout the four years of the American Civil War--by rail, by foot, and on water--the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry traversed nearly 5,000 miles...
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The 48th/150th: "Every Heart Was Filled to Overflowing:" The Road To...
U.S. Soldiers Stand Atop The Earthworks at the Captured Fort MahoneApril 1865[National Archives] 150 Years Ago. . .and at long last, Petersburg, which according to Oliver Bosbyshell had been "so long...
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The 48th/150th: Beginning the Journey Home and the Dead of Fort Mahone
Luminaries On The Graves of U.S. Soldiers at the Poplar Grove National CemeterySeveral Soldiers of the 48th Pennsylvania Are Buried Here[www.petersburgarea.org] 150 years ago. . .the soldiers of the...
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The 48th/150th: To Alexandria
150 years ago. . .the soldiers of the 48th Pennsylvania were settling into a new camp, this one at Fort Lyons, near Alexandria, Virginia, the men eagerly looking forward to going home. Officers of...
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The 48th/150th: The Dead of the 48th Pennsylvania
As initially envisioned and intended, this date--May 30--was, in 1868, originally designated as Decoration Day, a day of solemn remembrance during which Americans were to pause and pay tribute to those...
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The 48th/150th: Off To Mexico?
150 years ago. . .the soldiers of the 48th Pennsylvania remained encamped at Alexandria, Virginia. Lee, Johnston, and a number of other Confederate leaders had long since surrendered their forces;...
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The 48th/150th: "Like A Savage Torrent:" The 48th Pennsylvania at Petersburg:...
Harpers' Weekly Depiction of Attacks on Petersburg, June 1864150 Years Ago. . .the ranks of the 48th Pennsylvania had once more been bloodied following a series of assaults at Petersburg. A week...
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The 48th/150th: The End
The Remnants of the First State Flag Presented to the 48th Pennsylvaniain September 1861 (pacivilwarflags.org) 150 years ago today. . .on July 22, 1865, the 48th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer...
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Discovering Lt. Cullen. . .
Lieutenant William CullenCompany E, 48th Pennsylvania[Courtesy of Catherine Siegel and Family] In all of my years studying the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry, there are few moments more thrilling for me...
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Killed At Spotsylvania: Lt. Henry Clay Jackson: Teacher Turned Soldier Turned...
Lieutenant Henry Clay Jackson(Courtesy of Ronn Palm; Museum of Civil War Images) In 1861, twenty-four-year-old Henry Clay Jackson, from St. Clair, Pennsylvania, was looking forward to a career in the...
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“If I Fall On The Battlefield It Will Be For A Good Cause:” Private Thomas...
Although I have not been posting as frequently as I once did and not even as much as I did during the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War (2011-2015), I still maintain this site/blog and keep it active...
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Remembering General James Nagle On The 150th Anniversary Of His Death
General James NaglePictured Holding the Sword PresentedUpon His Return Home from the Mexican Warin 1848(Library of Congress) 150 years ago. . .sometime around 4:00 o’clock on the morning of Wednesday,...
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A Sad End To A Promising Life: Captain Peter Fisher, Co. D 48th Pennsylvania...
Peter Fisher, pictured as a Lieutenant(U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center) All I really ever knew about Peter Fisher was from what I gleaned from the regimental records.I knew, for example, that...
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Discovering Emerguildo Marquiz: Mexican. American. Civil War Soldier.
I first came across his name nearly twenty years ago. . . . It was in the late '90s and I was back at home during one of my summer breaks from college. One day, I decided to take the short,...
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Henry Jenkins: Born in Wales and Died in Georgetown from Wounds Received at...
The Likely Image of Henry JenkinsCompany F, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry(Courtesy of Mr. Richard Hammons and Mr. RichardJenkins) 2016 has been quite the remarkable year for me in discovering new...
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"No Greater Tribute Could Have Been Paid To This Venerable Old Veteran:" The...
A Horse-Drawn Hearse Carries The Remains of Civil War Veteran Thomas Reed Around the Square in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania July 1938(Courtesy of Mr. Bob Fisher) Thomas J. Reed was among the last surviving...
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5,507 Miles: The Civil War Experiences and Diaries of Captain Francis D....
Captain Francis D. Koch and his wife Mattie(Courtesy of Ronn Palm/Museum of Civil War Images)Oliver Bosbyshell remembered quite vividly the moment when Francis Koch was shot. It was at the Battle of...
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The Civil War Letters of Private Daniel E. Reedy: Company E, 48th...
Sometimes really strange things happen. . .Early last year--during those cold, cold late winter days of 2016--I received an email from a Mr. Thomas Golden who had read an article of mine published in...
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A Springtime of Slaughter: The 48th Pennsylvania During The Overland...
It's early May. . .and 154 years ago, the soldiers of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry were in the midst of what would prove to be their bloodiest campaign of the war. In the thirty-two days between May...
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The Civil War Sacrifice of the Brobst Family: Simon and Salome & John and Sarah
This Memorial Day, as we pause to honor the nation's fallen and pay tribute to those who gave their lives so that this country may live, it is only appropriate, I think, that we also pause to consider...
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