War and Veteran Profiles

• Revolutionary War
  • John Horner's: Camp Security
  • John Horner's: Adams Countains in the Revolutionary War
  • Henry Williams: Emmitsburg's Lost Revolutionary War Hero
  • How Whiskey Almost Started a War
  • The Flying Camp Battalion
  • The Game Cock Company
  • The Forgotten Patriots of the Tom's Creek Hundred
  • The Unit History of the Tom's Creek Hundred's Game Cock Company
  • Toms Creek Hundred: The Wild Frontier
     
• War of 1812
  • Emmitsburg's War of 1812 Honor Roll
  • The 200th anniversary of the burning of Washington
  • The Short History of Defense of Maryland During the War of 1812
     
• Civil War Soldiers and Rosters
  • 6th Maryland Infantry Co. D Roster
  • 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry Co. B Roster and articles
  • A Soldier's Return to Adams County (John Ross Horner)
  • Archives of Cole's Cavalry
    • 1864 Roster of Cole's Cavalry Co. "L"
    • Private George Mace Sr.
  • Roster of Confederate Soldiers From Emmitsburg
    • First Emmitsburg Man to Serve in the Confederate Army
    • From Professor to Civil War Hero, Lt. Colonel Daniel Beltzhoover

• Emmitsburg Area Civil War History
  • Emmitsburg, 150 Years Ago, Before the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Gettysburg Preservation & Commemoration, 150 Years in the Making
    • Gettysburg Commemoration, 150 Years in the Making - Part 2
  • Civil War Diary
    • Part 1 - Emmitsburg as a Civil War Crossroad
    • Part 2 - Emmitsburg, a Town Divided
    • Part 3 - Maryland Invaded!
    • Part 4 - Confederate occupation of Emmitsburg
    • Part 5 - Cole's Cavalry during the Winter of 1861-1862
    • Part 6 - The Christmas Experience
    • Part 7 - To Beloved during the Victorian Era
    • Part 8 - Captain Albert Hunter, A True Leader
    • Part 9 - Into the Valley
    • Part 10 - The Invasion of Pennsylvania
    • Part 11 - The Confederate Army Withdraws from Gettysburg
    • Part 12 - The Road to Smithsburg - Part 1
    • Part 13 - The Road to Smithsburg - Part 2
    • The Confederate Soldier in the 1862 Maryland Campaign
    • The Union Soldier in the 1862 Maryland Campaign
    • The Ten Days Following Gettysburg
  • Pennsylvania Campaign Sesquicentennial
    • Part 1 - The Invasion of Pennsylvania
    • Part 2 - The Union makes ready
    • Part 3 - Skirmishes at Cashtown & Chambersburg
    • Emmitsburg, 150 Years Ago, Before the Battle of Gettysburg
    • Gettysburg Commemoration, 150 Years in the Making
    • The Ten Days Following Gettysburg
  • A Snowball's Chance
  • A Short History of Emmitsburg in the Civil War
  • A Wartime Sketch of Emmitsburg after the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Calvary Battles Around Emmitsburg - Part 2
  • Daughters of Charity & the battle of Gettysburg
  • Dairy of Joseph E. Wible 1861-1862, Part One
  • Emmitsburg as a Civil War Crossroad
  • Emmitsburg during the Pennsylvania campaign of 1863
  • Emmitsburg in the Civil War
  • Emmitsburg and the recoil of Gettysburg
  • General Albert Jenkins Cavalry Brigade During Gettysburg
  • General John Imboden Memoirs of The Retreat from Gettysburg
  • General Meade and the Protection of Emmitsburg
  • General Meade's Pipe Creek Circular
  • General Reynolds and Emmitsburg
  • Letters
    • Emmitsburg as described in a Union Solder's letter 6/30/1863
    • The Battle of Gettysburg as seen from Indian Look
    • The letters of Major Bell
  • List of Military Engagements in the Emmitsburg and Adam's County
  • Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Beltzhoover, CSA & Mt. Professor
  • Lewistown During the Civil War
  • Major Fredrick C. Winkler letters home, June 26 to July 8, 1863
  • Maryland's Part in Saving the Union
  • More Cavalry Battles Around Emmitsburg
  • Peace Democrats Who Opposed the Civil War
  • Signal Operations of Emmitsburg During the Civil War
  • The Battle of Emmitsburg
  • The Celebrations of March
  • The Confederate Invasion - Part II
  • The Raids of 1864
  • The 1862 Maryland Campaign on the Home Front
    • The Skirmish of Braddock’s Gap on Catoctin Mountain
    • Quebec Schoolhouse
    • Picketing the Catoctin Mountain and the Fight North of Frederick
    • A Small Skirmish on the Catoctin Mountain and Jefferson
    • The Occupation of Turner’s Gap & Fox’s Gap
    • Robert E. Lee began his movements toward the north
    • The Chambersburg Raid of 1862
  • The Union Soldier during the Maryland Campaign of 1862
  • The Confederate Soldier during the Maryland Campaign of 1862
  • The 150th Commemoration of the Maryland Campaign
  • Thurmont During the Civil War
  • Wayde Chrismer's: The Emmitsburg Area in the Civil War
  • Woodsboro During the Civil War
  • Newspaper account of the plans for the 50th Gettysburg Re-union

• The Civil War in Tom's Creek and Along the Waynesboro Pike
  • The Pivotal Crossroad of the Civil War along the Waynesboro Pike
  • The Struggle for Fountain Dale
  • Holding the Mountain Passes of Fairfield & Monterey
  • The Battle of Monterey Pass
  • The Long Road Home
  • The Battle for Fairfield Gap

• South Mountain Civil War
  • South Mountain during the Pennsylvania Campaign
  • South Mountain during Early's Raid

• Spanish American War
  • Spanish American War Honor Roll
  • Emmitsburg Archives of the Spanish American War

• World War I
  • World War 1 Honor Roll
  • Henry T. Huff's: The Real Doughboys
  • Ed Houcks': Remembering Some of Emmitsburg's Honored Veterans
  • The Great World War: News Reports From the Front
    • 1918
      • June
      • May
      • April
      • March
      • February
      • January
    • 1917
      • December
      • November
      • October
      • September
      • August
      • July
      • June
      • May
      • April
      • March
      • February
      • January
    • 1916
      • December
      • November
      • October
      • September
      • August
      • July
      • June
      • May
      • April
      • March
      • February
      • January
    • 1915
      • December
      • November
      • October
      • September
      • August
      • July
      • June
      • May
      • April
      • March
      • February
      • January
    • 1914 - A most disastrous year abroad
      • December
      • November
      • October
      • September
      • August
      • July
         
• World War II
  • Gettysburg's World War II Prisoner of War Camp
  • Veteran Profile
    • Lance Corporal Phillip Mort, USMC
    • Sergeant Kenneth Lionel Krom
    • First Sergeant Paul T. Nicholls
    • Staff Sergeant John Reaves
    • George Baker's - My Time In the Service during WWII
  • Training at Emmitsburg in World War II – the Ritchie Boys
  • Camp Ritchie during World War Two
  • World War II Honor Roll
  • Ruth Richards': Emmitsburg in World War II
  • Gettysburg's World War II Prisoner of War Camp
  • Elizabeth Progress
  • Carlton Weaver's: Flight Training at Mount Saint Marys in 1942-3
  • John Fuss': Wilbur Roland Long  An America Hero
  • LtCdr Hillman's: 50 Yard Line Seats for a Show I Would Rather Have Missed
  • ‘War really is hell'
  • Thomas E. Hoke - The Story of a Hometown Veteran
  • Staff Sergeant John Reaves memories of serving in Papua New Guinea
  • George Baker's - My Time In the Service during WWII
  • Normandy D-Day Tours: Retracing Historic Steps in France

• Korean War
  • Korean War Honor Roll
     
• Viet Nam
  • Remembering Sergeant Kenneth Lionel Krom
  • First Sergeant Paul T. Nicholls
  • Lance Corporal Phillip Mort, USMC
    • Lance Corporal Phillip Mort's: Surviving the Tet Offensive of ‘68
       
• Cold War Warriors
  • Captain William Hicks - The Silent Service is the Cold War
    • Early submarine training
    • New construction pre-commissioning of USS Sunfish
    • Submarine Squadron Engineer, New London Connecticut
    • Building the Philadelphia

  • Commander Mike Cuseo, USN Ret.

    • How I extended the Cold War
    • The Cold War Wasn't That Cold
    • My Life In A Sewer Pipe
    • An Amazing Day
  • Commander John Murphy, USN Ret.
    • World War III will be at 8 AM in the Morning!
    • The "Thaw" in Gettysburg
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis - Part 1
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis - Part 2
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis - "Execute Scabbards '63 "
    • The Cold War’s Chaotic Sixties
    • Incidents at Sea
    • Submarines - the Secret War Within the Cold War
    • Moles - The Enemy within
    • Spy Ships, Theirs and Ours
    • Beginning of the end of the USSR
    • The 1980s - Exodus of Soviet Jews from the USSR
    • A  Day with the last soviet naval leader
    • 1990’s – The Gorbachev coup and the end of the USSR
    • Cold War Fallout
    • Cuban Missile Crisis 50th anniversary
  • Captain Edmond D. Pope, USN Ret.
    • Whiskey on the Rocks
    • 2012: A Pivotal Year in U.S.-Russian Relations?
    • Cold War Fallout
    • Cold War Fallout - Part 2
  • Judy Butterfield - Postcards from the Cold War Homefront
  • Captain James Berral, USAF, RET
    • An Interesting Night with the Snark
    •  Light Fuse and Get Away
  • Major Ted Streeter's
    • Spies like us?
    • Spies like us two!
    • Virtue of Patience
    • Was it Real
  • Tom Wajda -  A Diplomat’s Cold War
  • Ludwig Pilato - Prague adventures in the summer of 1962