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Road trip! Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia: Part 5
This final group of pictures comes from the northern/eastern part of the Appomattox National Historic Site and battlefield park, within the old April 1865 Confederate lines. All photos by Scott Mingus,...
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Historic house in Wrightsville was UGRR station and later a Confederate...
Jonathan Mifflin was from a long and broad line of Quakers who settled in the Columbia/Wright’s Ferry/Wrightsville region of southern Pennsylvania. Members of his family were prominent in social,...
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Historic Underground Railroad station near Wrightsville faces uncertain...
Back in June of this year, I published a well-received blog entry briefly outlining the history of the “Hybla” property and its signature 18th-century stone farmhouse just west of Wrightsville,...
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Historic Underground Railroad station near Wrightsville faces uncertain...
Detail from an aerial photograph of the old Hybla farm near Wrightsville PA (Scott Mingus photo taken inside the Hybla farmhouse) In part 1 of this brief two-part series, we looked at the Mifflins, who...
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JEB Stuart’s Rebel cavalrymen camped in Dover man’s fields
Alfred Weaver of Dover, Pennsylvania. Photo taken by H. Barratt, York, Pa.(Scott Mingus collection) I frequently peruse eBay and other on-line auction sites looking for photographs/CDVs of York...
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Extra Billy’s boys devastated North York farm
SLM derivation of a map from the Pennsylvania History & Museum Commission. Copy at YCHC. Today, thousands of motorists travel through the intersection of U.S. Route 30 (Loucks Road) and N. George...
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Yankees and Rebels both camped on Wrightsville farm
Detail from a 1931 aerial photo (Hagley Library Digital Collection, Wilmington, DE) The last of June 1863 were momentous times for the citizens of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Situated on the western...
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Battle to save Underground Railroad Station marks 154th anniversary of Rebel...
Today marks the 154th anniversary of the beginning of the Confederate invasion of York County, Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Colonel Elijah V. White’s 35th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, entered Hanover,...
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Confederates camped around York before the battle of Gettysburg
In giving frequent talks and presentations on Civil War topics related to York County, one of the most frequent questions I receive is the location of the various Confederate campsites in and around...
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Two new Civil War Trails signs in Wrightsville
As many of my readers know, many Civil War experts consider my book Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863 to be the definitive military account of...
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