Vintage Johnstown

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