Local ACW events: November 2008 Archives

The Hanover Area Historical Society will host a special free event for the public at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 18, in Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania. Entitled "Lincoln visits Hanover Junction", the event will commemorate the date of President Abraham Lincoln's journey by train to consecrate the cemetery grounds in Gettysburg. The program will feature Civil War accounts of the role the Hanover Junction rail depot played in troop movements, telegraph dispatch, and American history.

President Lincoln, portrayed by James Hayney, will speak to the crowd promptly at 5 p.m.

There will be a presentation on the Confederate cavalrymen (White's Comanches) who raided the Northern Central Railway route, destroying bridges and cutting telegraph lines.

Hanover Junction was a major telegraph dispatch station during the war, and Terry Koller will portray the head telegraph operator stationed at the depot. Koller will explain his duties and the history of the Hanover Branch Railroad which connected Gettysburg, Hanover, and Jefferson to the larger Northern Central Railway that ran from Baltimore to Harrisburg.

Historian and author Dennis Brandt will talk about the 87th Pennsylvania Regiment (Co. C) soldiers from the York County area who guarded bridges in Pennsylvania and Maryland during the Civil War.

Author Robert Trout, Jr. will be speaking to the Lancaster Civil War Round Table about his latest book entitled Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 13, 2008. Known for his books about General J.E.B. Stuart, Trout has again taken on the task of telling the story of some of Stuart's men in the artillery division. Written by the participants, these first-hand narratives and accounts of life during the Civil War in Stuart's Artillery Battalion make for fascinating reading. This latest volume of the "Voices of the Civil War" series, compiled and edited by the noted J.E.B. Stuart authority and historian, contains brief bio's on every officer in the battalion from the lieutenants to the colonels.

Lancaster Civil War Round Table meets at the Lititz Public Library. Registration is suggested but not required. Pre-register by emailing your name, phone number and the number of people attending to Sallie at srihn@lititzlibrary.org or call the library at 717-626-2255. If you have questions about the program, call Micky Kraft at 717-392-4976 or email lancastercivilwarroundtable@gmail.com.