Sgt. Robert Green was a prominent community member in Shippensburg, PA. He resided in Shippensburg his entire life. He was unable to read or write, making him a laborer until he joined the Union.[1] Green enlisted in Carlisle, PA on August 29, 1864. He was mustered into Company E of the 127th Regiment U.S.C.T. Green was promoted from Private to Sergeant on September 14, 1864.
The manufacture, or making by hand, of firearms (almost exclusively longrifles) dates to the era of British colonization and settlement of the Cumberland Valley.
All Hallow’s Eve--the night when witches and hobgoblins supposedly walk abroad. What began in the 1860s as a night of boyish pranks evolved into a county-wide celebration of parties, parades and fun.
James Holliday was born in Clark County, Virginia around 1835. He enlisted as a private in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on August 29, 1864, into Company E of the 127th U.S.C.T. He was 37 years old at the time, according to his Company Descriptive Book, and he stood at five feet nine inches, with black hair, eyes, and complexion. He was working as a laborer.1 His obituary states that he was enslaved until his enlistment.
Indentured servants were men and women who agreed to work for a master without pay for a specified number of years, usually in return for having their passages to America paid. This 1775 advertisement in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Gazette announced that the ship Hawke had just arrived from London and was lying off the Market Street wharf with a shipment of “a few likely healthy servants” of many different trades “whose times are to be disposed of.”
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