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A New Face of the Forty-Eighth: Private James Dempsey, Co. F, 48th PA Infantry
It doesn't happen as often as one might think, considering all the many thousands of Civil War photographs that were taken, but I always, always enjoy seeing a "new" face of the Forty-Eighth, a...
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"Dear Ma. . ." The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Curtis C. Pollock To Be...
Lieutenant Curtis C. PollockCompany G, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry{Hoptak Collection} As I have noted many, many times before in posts about the discovery of letters or documents or photographs or...
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A Stone For Captain Fisher. . .
When last in Pottsville, I took a quick drive through the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, where the remains of many 48th Pennsylvania soldiers were laid to rest. Near the plot of those who died or were killed...
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'"Dear Ma:" The Civil War Letters of Curtis Clay Pollock' Now Available
I am very happy to announce that "Dear Ma:" The Civil War Letters of Curtis Clay Pollock, First Defender and First Lieutenant, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry is now available. This book was a long time in...
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Can You Help Identify This Unidentified 48th PA Image?
Our Unidentified OfficerCompany I 48th Pennsylvania Infantry* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Of the more than 1,800 soldiers who served in the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry, whether for a few...
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Finding Michael Kistler. . .
Thanks to my friend Brian Downey--the owner/administrator of the Antietam On The Web website, a great and vast trove of information on that incredibly important battle and its participants--I got to...
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A New Face of the 48th? Help Identify Who This May Be!
Last week, Buck Zaidel, an acquaintance of mine who is a Civil War image collector and co-author of Heroes for All Time: Connecticut Civil War Soldiers Tell Their Stories, shared with me an image from...
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A "New" Face of the 48th: William Wainwright Potts, Captain, Company D
Sometimes many months will pass, sometimes even a year or more, before I happen upon, discover, stumble over, locate, or be sent or directed to a "new" image of a 48th Pennsylvania soldier--or at least...
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Eight from the Forty-Eighth. . .
I remember well when I first read about it; it was quite some time ago, back when I was in high school during one of my many trips to the Pottsville Free Public Library. I would head up there often to...
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Remembering the 48th Pennsylvania's Civil War Dead. . .
Organized in the late summer of 1861 and officially disbanded when the regiment was mustered out of service on July 17, 1865, the 48th Pennsylvania was in its existence for almost the entirety of the...
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"Wasn't That A Splendid Charge?:" 154 Years Ago, The 48th's "Most Brilliant...
Edwin Forbes Sketch of the 9th Corps's Attack at Petersburg, June 17, 1864Sometime around 3:00 a.m. on the morning of June 17, in almost total darkness, Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants, commanding the 48th...
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Help Me Identify This Unidentified Company G, 48th PA, Sergeant
Several months ago, I happened upon several images of 48th PA soldiers, including this tintype of an unidentified sergeant in Company G, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. The image was taken in either late...
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Is This A New Face of the Forty-Eighth?
Is this the image of a 48th Pennsylvania soldier?I don't know how many times I've said it or heard it said over the years in reference to Civil War soldier photographs and particularly CDVs: "If only...
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Soldier Story: Private William Straw, Musician/Fifer, Company K, 48th...
I always enjoy seeing a 'new' face of the 48th Pennsylvania, an image, that is, one of its soldiers I had never before seen, and thanks to Norman Gasbarro at Civil War Blog and to the descendants of a...
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"They Fell While Gallantly Defending a Just and Holy Cause:" The Dead of the...
Currier and Ives' Depiction of Fredericksburg[Library of Congress] The attack of Sturgis's division of the 9th Army Corps against Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, is not as well...
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At Long Last. . .A Regimental History of the 96th Pennsylvania!
The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War[Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishing Co., 2018]The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, although perhaps the best known, was certainly not...
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"Distressing Occurrence:" The Tragic, Untimely Death of Sergeant Samuel...
Samuel Clemens survived the very worst of the American Civil War, making it through all the trying campaigns and hellish fights in which the 48th Pennsylvania was engaged, though certainly not...
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"A Good Man Gone:" The Story of Private John C. Cole, of Pottsville: Husband,...
John Cole was forty-four years old in the spring of 1864; a shoemaker from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, who was able to comfortably provide for his family. He had been married already for seventeen...
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Faithful to Every Duty: The Life and Death of Lieutenant Henry Clay Jackson,...
Lieutenant Henry Clay Jackson(Courtesy of Ronn Palm; Museum of Civil War Images) Spring 1861. Twenty-four-year-old Henry Clay Jackson, from St. Clair, in the coal region of Schuylkill County,...
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A Sad End to the Life of Private William Fitzpatrick, Company C, 48th...
By mid-January 1871, newspapers across Pennsylvania were running Mary Fitzpatrick's desperate plea.She needed help finding her son, William, who, on December 5, 1870, vanished from her home in...
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