In June 1863 Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s army invaded Pennsylvania. As Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin (Class of 1837) called out the state militia, students at Dickinson were preparing for final exams. Yet despite “the alarm” Dickinson College President Herman …
Captain Daniel H. Hasting took over command of the Carlisle Barracks in September 1861. As Thomas G. Tousey explains, “the Mounted Service Depot function… as a general depot receiving [cavalry] recruits from the entire northeastern section of the United States” and prepared them for combat. In addition, Tousey notes …
On the eve of the Civil War, the Dickinson College campus consisted of just three buildings – East College, South College, and West College (or “Old West”). East College, which opened in 1836, had recitation rooms and student dormitories. College Presidents …
The skirmish at Oyster Point was a small engagement that took place in late June 1863 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania between Confederate forces under General Albert G. Jenkins’ command and Union militia from New York under General William F. Smith’s …
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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