Union Capt. Jonathan Taylor never saw home again. Bethlehem’s only officer to die in the Civil War was mortally wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg on Dec. 13, 1862, amid a brutal and ineffective ...
The Scranton chapter of UNICO National donated $350 to the GAR Memorial Association’s fundraiser to return the Civil War sword of a North Scranton (then the town of Providence) native and Civil War ...
The GAR Memorial Association and the Civil War museum in the Marketplace at Steamtown are raising funds to purchase a Civil War era sword belonging to Lt. Ezra Griffin, Providence section, now North ...
At 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two centuries later, the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Association of Scranton and Civil War ...
The sword and scabbard of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is displayed at Fleischer’s Auctions on Thursday in Columbus. The wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are among ...
During ROADSHOW's July 28, 2007, stopover in Louisville, our cameras took a day trip to Perryville, Kentucky, the site of a Civil War battle no less bloody for having been fought in what was, ...
Ed Root was excited. A past president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania, a local group of war-between-the-states history enthusiasts, he had just heard that the man who owned a sword ...
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — This sign hangs in the window of the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library at the Marketplace at Steamtown, asking for help to return the sword of Civil War ...
That’s what 14-year-old Christopher George shouted when he found a late 19th century sword buried under sawdust in the attic of his family home in Dalton. The property has seen its fair share of ...
A new Yellowstone Art Museum exhibit, "Splash of Paint, Flash of Steel," combines Civil War swords with Charlie Russell paintings and a work by master Impressionist Claude Monet. Three private ...