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The July 3 bombardment was likely the largest of the war, [note 2] with hundreds of cannons from both sides firing along the lines for one to two hours, [note 3] starting around 1 p.m. Confederate guns numbered between 150 and 170 [note 4] and fired from a line over two miles (3 km) long, starting in the south at the Peach Orchard and running ...
Jennifer Lee Daugherty (November 8, 1979 – February 11, 2010) was an American woman from Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, who was killed by a group of people later referred to as The Greensburg Six, in an act of revenge, in February 2010.
The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8078-4753-4. Gallagher, Gary W., ed. Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-87338-629-9. Gottfried, Bradley M. Brigades of Gettysburg. New York: Da Capo Press, 2002.
From 1857 to 1861, James Buchanan, a Franklin County native, served as the 15th U.S. president, the first president to be born in Pennsylvania. [62] Over three days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, during the American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was fought near Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of both the Civil ...
Officials have spent the last 50 years attempting to identify the girl, Lacey said. In another effort to identify her, officials, with the help of the National Center for Missing and Exploited ...
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...
The federal agency estimates nearly 263,000 people residing in Pennsylvania in 2022 lived in a different state one year ago. Many came from border states, but the Keystone State also observed a ...
Western Pennsylvania residents say they've been left out of recovery efforts following the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.