Looking towards Cambria City and the Lower Works. The metal bridge past the Stone Bridge was a train bridge that ran straight into the plant.
Monday, October 12, 2026
Sunday, October 11, 2026
June 1, 1906 - LOSES HIS HAND BOARDING TRAIN - GEORGE REDMAN DIES - AFTER 42 YEARS LETTER WRITTEN AT GETTYSBURG FINALLY DELIVERED
Samuel Miller of South Fork loses hand boarding train.
George Redman Dies - Franklin Borough
AFTER 42 YEARS - Letter Written by John Marlowe at Gettysburg is finally delivered to brother James Marlowe of its dying author. Thanks to Frank Comber.
CIVIL WAR - Week of July 2, 1863 Threaten Invasion of Pennsylvania - Local Troop Heads to Bedford and Some Return to Johnstown, Muster Rolls, Treason Arrests & Rebel Spy
Threaten Invasion of Pennsylvania. What you have to realize about these newspapers is that they were printed weekly and had already gone to press and being sold during Day 2 of Gettysburg - which they would only have been learning about thru telegrams and word of mouth. So this is the state of affairs in our area and how they were coping with the threat ar this given moment.
In the summer of 1863, Pennsylvania was the site of the Gettysburg Campaign, the first full-scale Confederate invasion of a free state during the War. After his victory at Chancellorsville in Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia north through Maryland and into Pennsylvania, aiming to secure supplies, disrupt Union morale, and pressure European powers to recognize the Confederacy
Forewarned of the approach of the invading army, the War Department, assigned Major-General D. K Couch to the Department of the Susquehanna, with his headquarters at Harrisburg ; and Major-General W. T. H. Brooks to the Department of the Monongahela, with his headquarters at Pittsburgh. On the next day were issued a proclamation of Governor Curtin, and a call of General Couch, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania, urging them to organize and to hasten to the defense of the State, and, if possible, to drive back the invader before he should touch Pennsylvania soil.
At this point no one had any idea where exactly Lee was going to target. Folks in Johnstown and other parts of Western Pennsylvania began to panic and tried working on whatever defensive works they could muster up from trenches to walls. To arming themselves and others - anything to defend themselves from the Rebels.
Colored Troops to be Raised in Pennsylvania.
Troops heading to Johnstown,
From Capt, Litzinger's Co.
CAMP EMERGENCY
Near Bloody Run, Bedford Co. Pa
June 27, 1863
Capt. R. Litzinger, Lt. D.O. Evans, Lt. E.D. Evans, Sgt. C.T. Roberts, Sgt. J.T. Hutchinson, Sgt. D.J. Jones, Sgt. D.A. Jones, Sgt, Edward Owens
Corporals: Hugh Jones, Enoch Rees, J.L.P. McAllister, Erasmus P. Evans, D.W. Evans, J. Hawksworth, D.K. Davis, Newton I. Roberts
Musician - A.J. Litzinger
Mail Messenger - Tom P. Davis
Privates: W.H.H. Adams, Charles Jones, Simon Adams, Dwight Jones, Uriah Brown, George W. Jones, David H. Kinkead, Wm. Campbell, Philip Dolan, Newton Lloyd, Frank Leavy, John D. Davis, Joshua Davis, J. McMonigal, D.M. McMonigal, Edward D. Davis, William T. Davis, S, McMonigal
Aaron Davis, William Morgan, Alexander Mills, T.S. Empfield, D.J. Evans, Adram L. Makin, Oliver O'Harra, Jerry Evans, Lemuel Evans, Frank O. Powell, Elias D. Powell, High R.Evans, Augustine Fink, Richard W. Pryce, Richard Griffith, William D. Pryce, William R. Roberts, John Gittings
Matthias Hawkins, John D. Roberts, Richard J. Roberts, David Howell, Thomas J. Hughes, Elias Rowland, George F. Robinson, David P. Hughes, Richard Hughes, Edwin Rodgers, Luther Stiles, John Hughes William M. James, Wallace Stiles
Daniel T. James, James B, Singer, Adam Shinefelt, Edmund James, D.J. Jones (West), Samuel Thomas, David T. Williams, William A. Jones, Edwin Jones, William Willliams, George A. Wilson
Arrested John McKenzie, Joseph Will and David Watt - Treason
John Lawson - Ligonier arrested as a Rebel Spy
Saturday, October 10, 2026
The Letters - August 14, 1921 & August 18, 1921 - Postcards - To Mrs. Anna Hay from her son John (about his mother-in-law)
8/14/21
Dear Mother,
Mrs. Mills (his mother-in-law) is failing very rapidly. We are afraid it is only a question of a very short time. We received your postal and also letter. Please be careful and do not over do yourself.
Sunday Night
Lovingly,
John (son of Mrs. Anna Hay)
8/18/21 Thursday Morning
Mrs. Mills (his mother-in-law) died at 11 o'clock last night, Wednesday Aug. 17th 1921. Will be buried at Braddock Saturday afternoon. Alice (his wife) and I will be in Johnstown Saturday evening and stay with you over Sunday.
Lovingly,
John (son of Mrs. Anna Hay)
Friday, October 9, 2026
April 20, 1906 - San Francisco Earthquake - NO TIDINGS AS YET - Local Folks Caught in the Disaster - Lots of Names
Mr. & Mrs. Milton Roller - Mrs. L. A. Hoerle
Mr. & Mrs. A.C. Dibert and children
Mrs. Sarah Goodell and son
Miss Belle Stewart, Hattie and Sallie Duncan
Henry Nuttman Family, Mrs. John Irwin, E.R. Henry & George Haws
Louis Koenig, Mr. & Mrs. Owen Boyle
Mrs. Hannah O'Donnell
Mr. & Mrs. Jacob M. Murdock
Mrs. Jane Yeagley
F.H. Carssow
John Cavannah Jr. & Alphonse Sadler
Harry Berry, John Gageby
Mrs. Frederick Speck, Mr. & Mrs. James Cullen, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Leffler, Mr. & Mrs. David Swank, Francis Murphy
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