About this blog
Scott L. Mingus, Sr. is a scientist and executive in the paper and printing industry, as well as the author of several books and magazine articles on the Civil War, including some that deal primarily with York County during the Gettysburg Campaign.
This Cannonball blog presents stories and anecdotes from the war years, as well as announcing local Civil War events of the modern day.
Send all questions, news items, and suggestions to scottmingus@yahoo.com.
Category Archives: Wrightsville
Schedule of Civil War events in York County PA in June/July 2013
York County, Pennsylvania, played a role in the Gettysburg Campaign. More than 20,000 soldiers (Union and Confederate) tramped through or rode through the county during the last week of June and the first two days of July in 1863. One … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War events, Dover, Hanover, Hanover Junction, Wrightsville, York
Tagged Civil War 150th Anniversary
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Relics from the Wrightsville skirmish from the Gettysburg Campaign
Most readers know I wrote a best-selling book entitled Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River (Savas Beatie, 2011) which details Confederate Brig. Gen. John B. Gordon’s march to Wrightsville, Pa., on Sunday night, June 28, 1863, … Continue reading
Remembering another fallen Civil War casualty
Civil War-era graveyard in Columbia, Pa. In the overcast late afternoon of June 28, 1863, as elements of the vaunted Confederate Army approached the small town of Wrightsville in south-central Pennsylvania, more than 1,800 men in blue uniforms awaited them … Continue reading
Final photo of old Civil War gravestone by the Susquehanna?
Cannonball reader Eileen Musser lives along River Road in Hellam Township near the recently rededicated monument to a Confederate soldier once buried there after washing up on the riverbank back in late June 1863 during the Gettysburg Campaign. She took … Continue reading
Posted in Confederates, Monuments and markers, Wrightsville
Tagged Confederate cavalry, Confederate graves, Hellam Township
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Unknown Confederate Soldier from the Gettysburg Campaign memorialized along the Susquehanna River
In late June 1863, a body of a Confederate soldier washed up along the western riverbank of the Susquehanna River north of the Accomac Inn (then Glatz’s Tavern) in Hellam Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Believed to be a cavalryman from … Continue reading
York Army Hospital patients signed pact to reconnect after the war at Niagara Falls – Part 2
In Part 1 of this brief 2-part series, I mentioned the Civil War story of a group of 12 patients and stewards at the U. S. Army General Hospital in York, Pa., making a pact to meet at Niagara Falls … Continue reading
Posted in Wrightsville, Yankees, York
Tagged U.S. Army Hospital, Union soldiers, Wrightsville, York
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1930 Wrightsville photo shows old battlefield from the Gettysburg Campaign
Recently fellow blogger Jim McClure of the York Daily Record posted a photo taken in 1930 of the newly dedicated Lincoln Highway bridge linking Wrightsville, Pa., (foreground) with Columbia (top, across the Susquehanna River). I have grayed out the 1930 … Continue reading
Rebels en route to Wrightsville stole horses from farmer Jacob Ruby near Hellam
The old stone house shown above sits on the south side of State Route 462 just east of Hellam, Pennsylvania, in eastern York County. Hundreds of cars drive past it every day. Back on June 28, 1863, more than a … Continue reading
The historic old Accomac Inn was Glatz’s Ferry during the Civil War
This idyllic scene from an 1860 Shearer & Lake map depicts Glatz’s Ferry on the Susquehanna River in eastern York County, Pennsylvania, in the years before the Civil War. The ferry crossing dates from colonial days, and the large multistory … Continue reading
Posted in Civilians, Gettysburg Campaign, Wrightsville
Tagged Accomac Inn, Susquehanna River
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Wrightsville’s African Methodist Church — did one of their men perish in a Civil War skirmish during the Gettysburg Campaign?
The local African Methodist Episcopal Church played an important spiritual role in the welfare and family life of black citizens in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, a small industrial town alongside the Susquehanna River. The red brick building shown above dates from 1891, … Continue reading
Posted in Black history, Gettysburg Campaign, Wrightsville
Tagged black history, Wrightsville
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