John Fletcher Hamlin from Warren, Pennsylvania is a soldier in the190th Pennsylvania Infantry. Originally having enlisted with the Pennsylvania First Rifles on August 23, 1861, he was 20 years old at the time of his re-enlistment with the 190th. As is the case with many soldiers North and South, Hamlin writes letters to home during…
Today Frederic Bates of Pennsylvania writes a letter to U. S. President Abraham Lincoln: Titusville Pa Nov 10/63 Dear Sir On the 23d of July last I left Macon Geo. with my wife & child for Vermont My Native State Had been a resident of the South eight years. While travelling from Macon to Atlanta…
Gettysburg’s outcome ripples outward North and South, impacting the lives of countless soldiers, officers, civilians and politicians. One impacted Union officer is Charles H. Banes (1831-1897), a Baptist businessman from Philadelphia and member of the city’s Second Baptist Church. Banes this month is promoted to the rank of major in the Union Army’s Philadelphia Brigade.…