National Park Service historian Ted Alexander offered an informative presentation at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on September 14, 2010. In his discussion of the Civil War “homefront” in the Cumberland Valley, Alexander provides an overview of …
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National Park Service historian Ted Alexander offered an informative presentation at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on September 14, 2010. In his discussion of the Civil War “homefront” in the Cumberland Valley, Alexander provides an overview of …
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The Rupp House in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania served as the headquarters for Confederate General Albert G. Jenkins’ brigade during the Gettysburg campaign in late June 1863. On June 28 Jenkins’ troops captured Mechanicsburg without encountering any resistance. Two days later, however, …
‘Americans Shall Rule America!’ The Know-Nothing Party in Cumberland County (1998) Free Soil: The Birth of the Republican Party in Cumberland County (Summer 2000) In Defense of Union and White Supremacy: The Democratic Alternative to Free Soil, 1847 – 1860 …
“Southern Sentiments: A Look at Attitudes of Civil War Soldiers” (1990) Patricia Coolmeyer’s essay explores the different ways that soldiers and residents of southern Pennsylvania saw the South during the Civil War. Coolmeyer uses a wide variety of sources in …
Union Soldiers – Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Read more »