The Gettysburg “Witness Tree” Severely Damaged in Storm
GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — Standing just 150 feet from the platform on which President Lincoln delivered his most famous speech, one of the few remaining “witness trees” to the Battle of Gettysburg has been severely damaged by a storm, National Park Service officials said. The huge honey locust tree on Cemetery Hill fell Thursday evening. “The top [...]Stories of the Civil War
Most of us with American ancestry that goes back to the mid-19th century have ancestors that got caught up in the Civil War. My own great-grandfather, Henry Canfield, joined the Michigan Volunteers early in the war, and served for the duration. After the war, he volunteered to stay in the service, and went west, finding [...]Ancestry.com Posts the Civil War Army “Official Records”
July 6th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Civil War, Databases, Digital Online Content
I see that Ancestry.com has posted the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion. Although the series can be found online in other places on the web, I’m happy to see that Ancestry has posted the data. It gives us another index, as well as digitized images. So [...]