Book Review: The Bitter Fruits: The Civil War Comes to a Small Town in Pennsylvania
The Bitter Fruits: The Civil Wilr Comes to a Small Town in Pennsylvania. By David G. Colwell, 1998. Cumberland County Historical Society, 1998.
The Bitter Fruits: The Civil Wilr Comes to a Small Town in Pennsylvania. By David G. Colwell, 1998. Cumberland County Historical Society, 1998.
A Short History of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1751 to 1936. By Daniel J. Heisey. 58 pp. Carlisle, Pa. The New Loudon Press, 1997.
Editorial Introduction. Mary Jane (Rippey) Heistand was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1856 of a family long settled in that town and part of the county. In 1878 she married Lieutenant Henry O.S. Heistand, who had graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in that same year. She accompanied him to the West, where he was stationed at the Poplar Creek Indian Agency in Montana Territory and at Forts Abraham Lincoln and Yates in Dakota Territory.
By the autumn of 1864, the editors of Harrisburg's daily Patriot and Union had written themselves into journalistic trouble. Their staunchly Democratic newspaper was read throughout the Commonwealth, but especially in Dauphin, Cumberland, and Perry counties. In its columns, they advocated a conciliatory approach toward the South. Then the Confederates raided Chambersburg, showed no bent for conciliation, burned the heart of the town.
Every American schoolchild was taught of the humiliating defeat of General Braddock's British redcoats by the French and Indians at the battle of the Monongahela; and the able Pennsylvania colonial military historian William A. Hunter on these pages told the tale of the bedraggled withdrawal of the remnants of Braddock's task force down the Cumberland Valley to Philadelphia in August 1755.
Interview of Randy Uhrich by Mike Snyder for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library.
Interview of Ken Chrosniak by Mike Snyder for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library.
Interview of Jake Baker by Mike Snyder for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library.
Interview of Clair Tritt by Linda Benzon for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library.
Editorial Note. This list of Kansas emigrants from Penn Township, Cumberland County, was made by Dr. S.M. Whistler. It was printed in Carlisle Herald, April 4, 1878, and reprinted the next day in the Carlisle Mirror; from which it is reprinted here.