Category: Research & Interpretation
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The Pennsylvania Bucktails Depart from the Peninsula Campaign.
Editor’s Note: As we continue to reconstruct some old content that was on our website a number of years ago, some data we’ve retrieved, unfortunately, is left without an authors name, or sources, or in some cases both. This particular piece was authored by Justin Sanders, and the sources are in tact, but it lacks…
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Soldier’s Record Recovered and Revised
Staying true to our mission, the PRVCHS exists to preserve the historic memory of the Pennsylvania Reserves. Pertaining to Private John Lininger (also spelled Leininger), Cumberland Guards, Company H, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves, this record revision is being recorded today, November 3, 2025 as a correction to the historical record. Private Lininger is last record by…
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The Gallant Company: The Indiana National Guards
By Douglas R. Cubbison Many histories have chronicled the events of the Civil War, but all too often the individual fighting man has been submerged beneath a deluge of grand strategies, potbellied generals, tactical evolutions, and glorious sacrifices. “Billy Yank” of 1861-1865 counted his Civil War service as the greatest and most memorable event of…
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Soldiers’ Reunion: Co. K, 4th Pennsylvania Reserves
SOLDIERS’ REUNION The Surviving Members of Company K., 4th Regiment, P.R.V.C.,Have a Social Time in Phoenixville The first reunion of Company K., 4th Regiment, P. R. V. C., since its members were mustered out of service twenty years ago was held on Saturday evening last at Phoenixville. On their arrival in the evening the guests…
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Organizing the Venango Grays (Co. C, 10th Pa. Reserves)
This is a initial sketch of the organization of the “Venango Grays”, which was assigned as Company C, 10th Pennsylvania Reserves.
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Florentine H. Staub, Co. D, 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves
Florentine H. Straub was born January 15, 1831 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty-one, he married Susan Niehart on September 5, 1852. Together they resided in Berks County, Pa, and between 1853 and 1860, and would have three sons, Francis, Albert, and Florentine Jr. Straub enrolled in the “Mechanics’ Rifle Company” on…
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A Death on the Homefront
On May 15, 1862, Cyrus Butler was enlisted and mustered into Co. K, 11th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers, a unit raised largely in Jefferson County of that state. The regiment was organized from its various companies at Pittsburgh on July 1, 1861.
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Correcting the Record: Charles A. Reeser, Co. E, 10th Pennsylvania Reserves
According to Samuel P. Bates” “History of Pennsylvania Volunteers”, Pvt. Reeser, Company E, 10th Pennsylvania Reserves deserted the Union Army in August of 1862. Several years ago I came across an auction where someone was selling a tintype (seen below) which was identified to be of Pvt. Reeser. The description of the auction basically explained…
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The Indian’s Head
n March 18th, 1854, a troop of twenty Dragoons arrived at Ft. Arbuckle searching for some killers. The lieutenant reported to Captain Seneca Simmons, post commander 7th Infantry Company “H”, and informed him that Indians had murdered Jesse Stern, the Indian Agent at Ft. Belknap, Texas and a companion near that fort.
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George Washington Fritz, Illegitimate Son of Pennsylvania’s War Governor Andrew G. Curtin
In an email correspondence we received a number of years ago from Sarah Shanklin Haynes, a descendant of George W. Fritz, a member of the Lock Haven Rifle Guards (Co. D, 7th Reserves), we learn that this soldier was the first born child and illegitimate son of Pennsylvania’s War Governor, Andrew Gregg Curtin. “I am…