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I wanted to find how the Carlisle area newspapers reported the riots and where, if any their position was on the incident.  I found two Carlisle newspapers on microfilm at the Dickinson Library: the American Volunteer and the Carlisle Herald.  … Continue reading →

This week, I searched for articles in newspaperse on microfilm pertaining to Thomas Nelson Conrad and Daniel Mountjoy Cloud.  I looked through the Carlisle newspapers from June and July of 1857 and 1858 to find information about the two men’s … Continue reading →

Monday night I went looking through newspaper databases for reference to Levi Bowen. I started with the 19th Century U.S. newspapers database, and entered the name “Levi Bowen” to search in Pennsylvania newspapers between 1839 and 1899. What I found … Continue reading →

Yesterday March 7 I went back to the Dickinson archives to scan some images that I feel can be very helpful in depicting what I have research so far. The first image is of the John Keggy Stayman letter. This … Continue reading →

My first step was to check the date that the Carlisle Fencibles were created from  the American Civil War Research database. The database gave only the date of their organization at Camp Wayne.  I remembered that other sources I had … Continue reading →

The most frustrating thing about researching Levi Bowen had been the apparent lack of good sources, both primary and secondary that reference him. I say had because on friday I went back to the beginning and took a closer look … Continue reading →

 Today I located some pictures of Samuel Hepburn and his family homes.  At the Cumberland County Historical Society, I researched and found the only image they had of Judge Samuel Hepburn.  This was a case photo (Catalog number ID 03-F-05 … Continue reading →

I found this image in one of the many books that I used to try and find information on Andersonville. This picture originally comes from the book “Locating Union and Confederate Records” by Nancy Justus Morebeck. However, i could not … Continue reading →

I came to the archives this afternoon with the intention of searching through letters, getting leads from letters, and then following those leads through to more letters, documents, ect., which will probably happen after this post. I went to the … Continue reading →