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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum: “The War Came by Train”– Part 1

Each year for my birthday each of my three kids spends time with me, with outings to Strasburg to ride the steam train, major league baseball games, Harpers Ferry, The Naval Museum in Washington, etc....

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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum: “The War Came by Train”– Part 2

Here is Part 2 of a series of photographs taken by Scott Mingus in September2011 in Baltimore, Maryland, at the B&O Railroad Museum. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, a...

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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum: “The War Came by Train”– Part 3

Here is the third and final installment of the series of Cannonball blog posts on the special exhibit “The War Came by Train” currently being shown at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in...

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Hanover merchant lost record books after sending them to “safety” before...

The above notice appeared in the October 1, 1864, edition of the Columbia Spy. It had been more than a year since the Confederate invasion of York County, Pennsylvania, during the Gettysburg Campaign,...

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Rebels destroyed Federal ironclad railcar at York

This Andrew J. Russell photograph is one of the few to show a Federal ironclad railcar. This one is near Bull Run in Northern Virginia in the spring of 1863. The armored train car is constructed on a...

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Civil War Railroads Talk to be Given at Harrisburg CWRT Oct. 26

USMRR Locomotive “J.H. Devereux” at Alexandria, Virginia, ca. 1863 For our Friday October 26th meeting, the Harrisburg Civil War Round Table is proud to have Dr. John E. Clark Jr. speaking to us on his...

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