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A war, three women, and a tradition the history of Boalsburg in the Civil War

"An American tradition was born in 1864 when Emma Hunter, Sophie Keller, and Elizabeth Myers decorated the graves of Civil War soldiers in the Boalsburg cemetery in Harris Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The village of Boalsburg contributed perhaps the highest number of volunteers per ca...

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Main Author: Evans, Susan.
Other Authors: Hazleton, Robert., Horner, Cathy., Taylor, Nancy.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2014?].
Subjects:
Local author.
Memorial Day > Historic sites > Churches > Cemeteries.
Boalsburg (Pa.) > Memorial Day > Historic sites > Churches > Cemeteries.
Boalsburg (Pa.) > History.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women > Boalsburg (Pa.)
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories > Pennsylvania Infantry > 148th.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I:
  • The Birth of Boalsburg from Settlement to the Civil War
  • Discovering an empire, James Potter surveys the forested plains
  • David Boal, Jr. and Reverend William Stuart arrive from Ireland
  • Establishing a thriving village
  • Springfield laid out by Andrew Stroup
  • The village of Boalsburg by 1861
  • A divided region, Civil War & Lincoln's call for troops
  • Part II:
  • Boalsburg enters the Civil War
  • The early volunteers
  • James A. Beaver and the 148th PA Volunteer Regiment
  • The Boalsburg Academy students enlist as told in The Sister's Story
  • Dr. C.P.W. Fisher and Benjamin F. Fisher
  • General James S. Brisbin
  • Benjamin S. Schneck and the burning of Chambersburg
  • Part III:
  • The home front
  • Families of Boalsburg
  • The Myers Family & the John Myers Civil War letters
  • The Hunter-Stuart Families
  • The Keller Family and Reverend George C. Hall.

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