On the blood-soaked fields of Antietam, a captain from Scranton, PA wrote home of the horrors of a Civil War battlefield and the fall of the regiment’s colonel. Bullets tore through bodies, faces masked in smoke and dust, boys became veterans in minutes. This firsthand letter from the 132nd Pennsylvania brings the battle almost unbearably close, in raw detail. Read the full story.
A Schuylkill County soldier killed at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862
Samuel Schwalm of the 50th Pennsylvania was slightly wounded in the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.
Volunteer soldier Gilliard Dock recorded an encounter with a very grump US Army general during the Battle of Antietam.
Some white residents of Schuylkill County believed former slaves were going replace them in the coal mines during the Civil War.
Concerned citizens are raising money to help repair the grave of Civil War soldier John F. Dentzer.
The letter was written by a soldier from Shamokin, Pennsylvania in September 1862.
On the night after the Battle of Antietam, a wounded soldier experiences a horrifying nightmare of terror on the battlefield.
Visitors to Antietam battlefield in 1862 took unexploded shells home as souvenirs. The results were disastrous, and often deadly.
When a Confederate army threatened Pennsylvania in September 1862, the citizens of Pottsville jumped into action. They also felt the harsh hand of war.