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Letters from War: 1861 | A Minersville Soldier in Washington
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Letters from War: 1861 | A Minersville Soldier in Washington
In the spring of 1861, the men of the Ringgold Infantry Company of Minersville, PA had traded the coal mining communities of Schuylkill County for the unfinished streets of Washington, DC. Mustered into federal service as Company I of the 5th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, they were among the first wave of Union soldiers to reach the capital in the anxious weeks after Fort Sumter – sleeping on bare floors, waiting on uniforms, and wondering wh…
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