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Showing posts with label 118th Pennsylvania. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 118th Pennsylvania. Show all posts

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Communing with spirit of Civil War 'badass' in Shepherdstown

The day after the Battle of Shepherdstown (Va.), Lieutenant Lemuel Crocker climbed atop these bluffs to retrieve the bodies of three office...

Saturday, April 25, 2020

'Peculiarly sad': Death in the Potomac of a 'patriotic man'

St. Clements Island, formerly known as Blackistone Island, near where Cunningham Johnston drowned in the Potomac River on the night of Apr...

Saturday, June 11, 2016

'Shell and be damned': An officer's bravery at Shepherdstown

118th Pennsylvania Lieutenant Lemuel Crocker disobeyed orders forbidding him to cross the Potomac to recover dead and aid wounded i...

Friday, October 09, 2015

Wading into history: A Shepherdstown battlefield tour

Taking the plunge on Sept. 19, 2015: Civil War enthusiasts cross the Potomac River at Boteler's Ford. Panoramic vi...

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John Banks: John Banks is author of A Civil War Road Trip Of A Lifetime, Connecticut Yankees at Antietam and Hidden History of Connecticut Union Soldiers. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Civil War Times, Civil War Monitor, Civil War News, America's Civil War and Military Images. Banks, who attended Mount Lebanon (Pa.) High School, graduated from West Virginia University (B.A. in journalism). A longtime journalist (The Dallas Morning News, ESPN, The History Channel), he is secretary-treasurer of The Center for Civil War Photography.

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