{"id":105,"date":"2011-02-04T04:29:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T04:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/mobile-tour\/?p=105"},"modified":"2019-09-03T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:47:55","slug":"war-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/carlisle\/war-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Wartime Sacrifices By Local Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Cumberland County Historical Society<\/a> contains dramatic evidence left by thousands of families<\/a> in Cumberland County who made deep sacrifices<\/a> during the Civil War<\/a>.\u00a0 Find out about the Colwell Family<\/a>, for example, through the letters of James, Annie and their young children, and how they argued over the aging Colwell’s unexpected military service and then grieved following his death at the Battle of Antietam.\u00a0 Or learn about the fate of the Carlisle Fencibles<\/a>, the local military unit that fought with the Army of the Potomac<\/a> for most of the war, until many of the men, such as local farm boy\u00a0John Taylor Cuddy<\/a>, were captured and found themselves facing disease and death in southern prison camps.<\/p>\n\n\t\t