May 14, 1866 - OUR JOHNSTOWN LETTER - Melancholy Accident, Various Improvements & Dreadful Visitor

Francis Gallagher

 

April 2, 1866 - OUR JOHNSTOWN LETTER - Ebensburg Alleghenian

Yoder Hill Tornado.

A woman named Hetrick - cramps.

 

CIVIL WAR - Week of March 6, 1862 - Local Injured Solders Return Home, Local Muster Rolls, Letter Home from Silver Grays & 54th Update

Mr. Lewis Jones - Injured - Cambria County Soldier Back Home. 

Co. A. 11th Regiment - John J. Storey and Joseph A. Pfoff - now on gunboat duty.

Maj. Litzinger - home on leave.

Silver Gray Letter Home

At this point in the war - The Confederacy suffered several devastating military setbacks in Tennessee and on the Atlantic Coast, while a new hero emerged in the North. In Washington, Congress passed part of the Republican Party agenda and held military officers accountable for defeats. The Lincolns suffered a personal tragedy - their son little willie died of typhoid, and the president continued trying to compel his commanders to advance.

The Federal invasion of Tennessee begins with a joint army-navy operation against Fort Henry on the Tennessee River.

George B. McClellan submits a 22-page report arguing in favor of his plan to move the Federal Army of the Potomac down the Virginia coast by water.

Confederate officials talk Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson out of resigning from his command in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law establishing the first Federal paper currency in U.S. history–the “U.S. Note.”

George B. McClellan coordinates a Federal invasion of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, but unexpected complications thwart his plans.

Joseph E. Johnston concludes that his Confederate army must abandon its positions along the Centreville-Manassas line in northern Virginia.

 

Broad Street - where Sheetz & Advanced Auto are further down closer to St. Columba

 

July 15, 1892 - 1889 Flood Insurance Ruling & Murder at Johnstown

Court ruling on Life Insurance payout for 1889 Flood family.

Mary Overbeck vs Jennie Overbeck on the death of William H. Overbeck,

Murder at Johnstown

Adolp Moschjat was shot and killed by Fred Gerber - his brother-in-law.

 

May 1892 - Johnstown Butcher Takes a Tumble, Gettysburg Souvenir, Civil War Monument & Trolley Car Accident

August Keifline - Johnstown Butcher - 20 foot fall

Maj. Burke - 11th PA (Civil War) takes home a Gettysburg Souvenir.

Raising money for Civil War Monument

Mrs. Elizabeth Kohler of Johnstown struck by trolley car on Locust street. She died one week later from gangreene. 

 

Cypress Avenue - WWI - Victory Garden

 

CIVIL WAR - Week of February 20, 1862 - Muster Roll of the Silver Grays, Cambria Unit & National Front

Thomas Maguire elected 2nd Lt. of the Silver Grays.

Dispatches from St. Louis.

Probable Capture of Savannah, Georgia.

Victory in Upper Virginia

The Fort Henry Victory

The President Thanks the Army and Navy

February 9, 1866 - OUR JOHNSTOWN LETTER

 

January 8, 1866 - OUR JOHNSTOWN LETTER - Disastrous Fire, A Female Spy Lecture & A Bit of a Run-Off

Fire at the plant of A. J. Hawes located at the west end of the Iron Bridge. This would have been located between where the Stone Bridge is now (which wasn't built yet) and the old Iron Train Bridge that was located a few hundred yards above where the Stone Bridge would be built later. This is not to be confused with the pedestrian bridge higher up. In 1889 - the Hawes plant was the site where a lot of the newspaper reporters camped out and wrote up most of their articles. 

Mrs. E.F. Thompson - Famous Union Spy.

And more on Morgan.