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Captain Alexander Frazer – Civil War hero and Coal Region mine foreman

Posted on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 by Jake Wynn

Captain Alexander Frazer became a hero during the Civil War. And after the war he shined as a mining expert in the Coal Region.

Posted in Civil War, Coal RegionTagged Alexander Frazer, Civil War, Civil War veteran, Coal Mining, Coal Region, Kalmia, Kalmia Colliery, Schuylkill County, Shamokin, Wilkes-Barre1 Comment

In April 1917, a loose floorboard revealed a letter written in the days after the Battle of Antietam

Posted on November 30, 2017March 16, 2018 by Jake Wynn

The letter was written by a soldier from Shamokin, Pennsylvania in September 1862.

Posted in Civil WarTagged 6th Pennsylvania Reserves, American Civil War, Antietam, Battle of Antietam, Civil War, Coal Region, Letter, Maryland, Newspaper, Pennsylvania, Shamokin, World War 1, World War I, WW1, WWI10 Comments

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