This collection contains documents beginning with the American Revolution and continuing through the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. There are account books, notes and written letters, vouchers, inspections of camps, receipts of payments, honorable discharge certificates, lists of absentees, envelopes used during the Civil War, and lists of unpaid fines during the service of the Pennsylvania Militia soldiers. There are also newsletters and articles relating to World Wars I and II and the Korean War for advertisement and description of items including the history of the Philadelphia Naval Base.
Discharge certificate. Private William Henry Lebkicher of Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, eighteen years old, enrolled on the second of August 1862 under Captain J. Miller Raub’s Company D 122nd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, to serve nine months, was discharge from the service of the United States on the fifteenth of May 1863 at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Lebkicher Family Civil War Letters and Discharge Papers (MG0258) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/4b929d84-1c6a-4e1f-8bc2-523672636170
Notes
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Accession Number
1998.MG0258
Other Numbers
MG-258
Other Number
MG-258, Folder 11, Insert 2
Classification
MG0258
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Cataloged by JM. Added to database 10 September 2022.
Photograph- Discharge certificate of Albert Myers of Company C, 1st Battalion, Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War. Myers was also a member of Stewart Post #566 of the Grand Army of the Republic. See LCHS Journal Vol. 97, p. 121.
Photograph- Discharge certificate of Albert Myers of Company C, 1st Battalion, Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War. Myers was also a member of Stewart Post #566 of the Grand Army of the Republic. See LCHS Journal Vol. 97, p. 121.
Description
Discharge certificate of Albert Myers of Company C, 1st Battalion, Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War. Myers was also a member of Stewart Post #566 of the Grand Army of the Republic. See LCHS Journal Vol. 97, p. 121.
