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York’s surrender of 1863: If not owned, a community mistake can be compounded

First installment: Who paid the Confederate requisition after York’s Civil War surrender? And who did not? The other day at Seminary Ridge Museum in Gettysburg, a Civil War talk turned to the ...
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York’s Civil War surrender at 160: ‘It was not York’s finest moment’

People packed the streets to see the recent reenactment of the shelling of Cumberland County’s Carlisle. Those strolling around the town enjoyed tours of historic Carlisle Civil War sites, speeches, ...
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Why did A.B. Farquhar surrender York to the Confederates? He's been unfairly vilified

On the 160th anniversary of the June 27, 1863 surrender of York to the approaching Confederate Army, rather than another discussion about the wisdom of the surrender, I believe a portrait of the man ...
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Who paid the Confederate requisition after York’s Civil War surrender? And who did not?

(This is the first of two columns focusing on the surrender of York to the Confederates in late June 1863 – a pivotal moment in York County’s story. Civil War historian Scott Mingus served as a ...
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Chair used by General Ulysses S. Grant during surrender at Appomattox, 1865

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee met in the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox ...
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York’s surrender of 1863: If not owned, a community mistake can be compounded

(This is the second of two columns focusing on the surrender of York to the Confederates in late-June 1863 – a pivotal moment in York County’s story. Civil War historian Scott Mingus served as a ...