The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, sometimes called the “Schuylkill” regiment, was recruited in Schuylkill County in August and September 1861 — about five months after the ...

Sometime on July 7, 1864, Corporal George R. Nicholas of Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, made up largely of Lehigh County men, took up his diary. With the bulk of ...

Aboard LST-422 were Companies C, D, and the Headquarters Company of the 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion and the 68th Coast Artillery Regiment ... 31,000 from Pennsylvania. To volunteer or to ...

In his book, “A History of Company C, 50th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment,” Richards relied on letters and diaries to tell a story of heroism. Schuylkill Count sent one ...

This statue honouring the 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment is one of 1,300 monuments and markers in Gettysburg National Military Park. Photograph by Destination Gettysburg Options for ...

The division will inactivate 1st Battalion, 109th Field Artillery Regiment and the 2803rd ... unit – then designated the 143d Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry – fought at McPhersons Ridge ...

Additional reports indicate the presence of units from the Russian 810th Naval Infantry ... 83rd Airborne (VDV) brigades, 56th VDV Regiment (7th VDV Division), and "Shir" detachment (Russian ...

Visitors can take a step back in time at the Revolutionary War-era tavern and an encampment by the 140th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment reenactment group. The Waynesburg and Washington ...

In observance of Black History Month, volunteers from the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars have written memorials about each of Pennsylvania’s fallen from the 366th Infantry Regiment.