Here’s a common question by users of our popular app, Pocket Gettysburg for iPhone/iPad. “Where can I find the monument to the 83rd New York Infantry?” (for instance) The easy answer is…         BUT keep in mind that this method searches the MONUMENT list for those monuments that have “83” in their […]

Described as a “identification tag,” this card was issued to each of the 22,103 veterans from Pennsylvania who attended the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913. (Some other states issued similar ones to its attending veterans). The veteran was asked to carry it in his pocket “in case of sickness or accident.” […]

The question of whether there were black soldiers in the Confederate Army is one of the most heated subjects on Civil War blogs and social media sites.   Some claim that that there were as many as 90,000 black soldiers in the Confederate army prior to 1865.  This claim, supported by a few posed photos […]

The National Park Service maintains the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) which is a database of the men who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.  In the context of a larger project, I wondered how many soldiers served from each state so I did a geographic analysis of […]

This is the time of year when people commonly ask us for the recipe for the “spiced tea” that we serve on tour.  So here for posterity is the recipe.  (We make it in a pretty large volume so you may want to scale down the volumes). Ingredients:     1 x 100 oz Container […]

A recent post by Randy Drais in his excellent Battle of Gettysburg Buff e-newsletter (randydrais@gmail.com) mentioned that he found my transcription of the 1860 Federal Census of Gettysburg to be useful.  This blog also had two posts (here and here) in which I analyzed that census with respect to age, sex, race, occupation, place of birth, […]