A 16-year-old high school student from Hanover, Sarah Adler, has been maintaining a blog on Gettysburg entitled Ten Roads (for the nexus of roads that radiate out from Gettysburg like spokes on a wagon wheel). She volunteers on Saturdays at the historic Gettysburg train station, which has recently underwent significant restoration.
She has recently been transcribing old Civil War letters, as well as discussing the train station.
Why not check out her efforts?
Thomas Nast illustration, Harper's Weekly.
I would like to wish each Cannonball reader a safe and pleasant holiday season! We are spending much of today at my daughter's house for a family get together, and then enjoying Christmas at our house tomorrow. Few Civil War soldiers had the privilege of spending the holidays at home with their loved ones and friends.
While York Countians were dealing with the occupation of Jubal Early’s veterans during the Gettysburg Campaign, neighbors in Cumberland County had their own set of problems, with two full divisions of infantry, a large battalion of artillery, and the bulk of a brigade of cavalry operating in that county. Richard S. Ewell, who had in-laws in York, occupied Carlisle and other towns, and patrols roamed freely without much opposition from New York and Pennsylvania militia, who were ensconced behind the shelter of extensive earthworks surrounding the approach to the Susquehanna River bridges and Harrisburg.
Last night's book signing, lecture, and reception for the official premiere of my new Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign, Volume 2 went very well. We raised some money for a local historical preservation group, had some great conversation with old and new friends, sold some books, and ate very well! The free event at the York Emporium was a marvelous way to spend a cold December Friday night.
The Lutheran Theological Seminary's Schmucker Hall
Matthew Brady, courtesy of the Library of Congress
This is a little off topic today, but it's for a very good cause as you will soon see...
Which Internet search engine do you routinely use? Do you Google, or do you prefer Yahoo or some other popular search engine? As of July 2006 (the latest data I could find), in a survey of more than 3 million Internet users by a third party watchdog company, (www.searchenginewatch.com), 43.7% of users prefer Google as their primary way of searching the Internet (and they are growing, up from 35% just a few years ago). I always use Yahoo, so I am in the next largest percentage of users at 28.8%. MSN was third at 12.8%, AOL was next at 5.9%, and Ask.com trailed among the Big Five at 5.4%. The remaining 3.4% is a hodge-podge of smaller providers.
Why do I provide this slightly outdated information, and what in the world does it have to do with the Civil War and local history??? Read on, please.
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