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Gettysburg 160th anniversary offers chance to learn about York County Civil War story
York Daily Record via Yahoo News· 11 months ago. A couple of years ago, historian Scott Mingus and I pulled together a list of unsung or overlooked...
Hopewell musician & hall-of-famer plays 'Taps' each year at Gettysburg National Cemetery
Beaver County Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA Hopewell Township musician embraced the honor and opportunity of performing "Taps" for a seventh...
Lakeland Community College Civic Band director visits Soldiers National Monument
The News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 4—Frank Cosenza, director of the Lakeland Community College Civic Band, recently took part in a "solemn and moving" ceremony at Gettysburg National Cemetery, performing Taps — the bugle ...
Learn about the Civil War veterans who were the first Erie soldiers' home residents
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe first Memorial Day observance at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Erie on May 30,...
Harry Bulkeley: Civil War battlefields terrible feeders for cemeteries
The Register-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt was just a cornfield. It didn’t look any different than a thousand cornfields we’ve seen in...
Black Civil War soldiers honored, name by name, at Vicksburg battlefield
Gannett via AOL· 3 months agoVICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi...
Howey: A former president claims divine providence
Gannett via AOL· 4 months agoAccording to the campaign of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump, the former commander-in-chief has divine providence. “And on June 14,...
When Portsmouth mourned President Abraham Lincoln
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe first U.S. president born west of the Appalachian Mountains came quietly into the world on Feb. 12, 1809, but Portsmouth and the rest of the world...
Oneonta community honors fallen on Memorial Day
The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoMay 27—About 150 people attended Oneonta American Legion Post 259's annual Memorial Day ceremony in Neahwa Park Monday, May 27, to honor and remember the fallen veterans of all American wars ...
Seen a line of weird lights in the sky over Central PA? Here's what they are.
Hanover Evening Sun via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIf you've been watching the night skies in Central Pa. recently and caught a glimpse of some strange...
