12th PA Reserves

COOPER – On the 24th instant, of disease contracted in the army, while a member of Company A Twelfth Pennsylvania Reserves, SAMUEL L. COOPER, son of Rachel and the late Samuel B. Cooper, in the...

This story was published by the New York Times in December 1863 related to a train derailment that left soldiers of the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps killed and injured. Last night, at about 6 o’clock, the second P.M. train from Brandy Station ran off the embankment at Bristoe Station, destroying several yards of the track, the locomotive and four cars, beside killing four men and wounding fifteen.

PROMOTED: We take pleasure in announcing to our readers the promotion of C. Martin, Co. H, 12th Pa. Reserve Corps, to Hospital Stewart, U.S. Army. Mr. Martin has for some time been acting as dispensary clerk in the Hammond Hospital, and by his promptness and knowledge of the business, has shown himself worthy of the position he now holds.

Henry C Weight, Civil War veteran, died at his home in Three Springs, Pa., December 1, 1926, aged 82 years, 8 months and 18 days.  He was born at Warriorsmark, Pa. and learned the...

For His Adopted Country. F. D. McGillicuddy, Mansfield, Pa, sends the following to the National Tribune: “Here is the record of a young Englishman, who served his adopted country, that is worthy of being perpetuated...

For over 20 years I have had the honor and pleasure of searching local cemeteries in York County for Civil War veterans.  It has become somewhat of a passion of mine, and to this...

It’s easy to sometimes overlook the normal, mundane and uneventful military tenures of volunteer soldiers when trying to tell interesting stories.  We tend to favor those whose decorated military careers are obvious, and those stories that have been told, and retold generation after generation.  In 2011 we were presented with a number of transcripts of original Civil War letters written by Abraham Penman to his wife, Elizabeth.