Add to ORKGYou can imagine the terror in the young 21-year-old\u27s eyes as he realized who was charging down the Cashtown Pike into Gettysburg on the 26th of June. You can feel the chill that might have run down his spine as he realized that the rebel army he had deserted, the one he had escaped by running to the Federal lines, was crashing down upon him again. And the deserter\u27s fate during this war was simple: execution. [excerpt
Samuel J. Vandersloot, a 25 year old Gettysburg attorney, enlisted as a private the 2nd Pennsylvania...
Originally compiled by John Rudy as a student project in 2007 at Gettysburg College, this new, revis...
I have been digging quite heavily into the history of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College and the Amer...
This week I had the chance to visit National Archives 1 to do some research for work into the histor...
With the anniversary of the battles around Fredericksburg this week, the Civil War world\u27s eyes s...
The battle anniversary loomed in the waning days of June. And Gettysburg was preparing. Aside from t...
A few years ago, Gettysburg College changed their wordmark. The previous college logo featured the w...
Back at the beginning of the summer, I was asked by the College to write a piece on the history of t...
In the woods south of Wilmington, men in blue uniforms moved forward in a loose skirmish line. They ...
Jacob and John Kitzmiller were brothers-in-arms, fighting through the thickets of Virginia with the ...
The fears of invasion voiced by the residents of south-central Pennsylvania prior to the Gettysburg ...
The fireflies have started to appear around Gettysburg. We have a new sliding glass door in the kitc...
On June 15, 1863, Albert Jenkins’s Confederate cavalry brigade became the first of Lee’s men to ente...
I was swimming last night and thinking about dead Confederates. Someday, it\u27s utterances like tha...
Elias Sheads Jr. worked in his father\u27s shop. They made wagons and coaches, some of the bedrock l...
Samuel J. Vandersloot, a 25 year old Gettysburg attorney, enlisted as a private the 2nd Pennsylvania...
Originally compiled by John Rudy as a student project in 2007 at Gettysburg College, this new, revis...
I have been digging quite heavily into the history of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College and the Amer...
This week I had the chance to visit National Archives 1 to do some research for work into the histor...
With the anniversary of the battles around Fredericksburg this week, the Civil War world\u27s eyes s...
The battle anniversary loomed in the waning days of June. And Gettysburg was preparing. Aside from t...
A few years ago, Gettysburg College changed their wordmark. The previous college logo featured the w...
Back at the beginning of the summer, I was asked by the College to write a piece on the history of t...
In the woods south of Wilmington, men in blue uniforms moved forward in a loose skirmish line. They ...
Jacob and John Kitzmiller were brothers-in-arms, fighting through the thickets of Virginia with the ...
The fears of invasion voiced by the residents of south-central Pennsylvania prior to the Gettysburg ...
The fireflies have started to appear around Gettysburg. We have a new sliding glass door in the kitc...
On June 15, 1863, Albert Jenkins’s Confederate cavalry brigade became the first of Lee’s men to ente...
I was swimming last night and thinking about dead Confederates. Someday, it\u27s utterances like tha...
Elias Sheads Jr. worked in his father\u27s shop. They made wagons and coaches, some of the bedrock l...
Samuel J. Vandersloot, a 25 year old Gettysburg attorney, enlisted as a private the 2nd Pennsylvania...
Originally compiled by John Rudy as a student project in 2007 at Gettysburg College, this new, revis...
I have been digging quite heavily into the history of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College and the Amer...