CIVIL WAR - Week of December 19, 1861 - Local Dead, Cambria Guards Letters Home, Silver Grays & Cambria Ladies Do Their Part

DEAD - John Wise of Chest Springs - member of the Cambria Guards.

FROM OUR VOLUNTEERS

Cambria Guard Letter Home, Camp Pierpoint, VA. December 8, 1861

Silver Grays of Cambria County now training in Camp Curtin. 

Cambria County Ladies Association sending supplies to the troops.

NOTINGS FROM WESTERN VIRGINIA

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Portland, VA. December 12, 1861

ANOTHER BATTLE IN WESTERN VIRGINIA - A FEDERAL VICTORY

Wm. H. Johnson - Louisiana - Union Army Deserter - Shot by firing squad.

Col. Kerrigan 25th NY - being court martialed. 

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