Richard Condon
"The ground seemed to be sacred." - The death of Major Frank Biddle Ward
The opening week of January 1863 was a stretch of dread and uncertainty for the Ward family of Allegheny City. With reports of recent...
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Richard Condon
- Dec 25, 2019
- 4 min
Allegheny Arsenal's Christmas Debacle of 1860
As the citizens of Pittsburgh awoke on a cold Christmas morning in 1860, they found themselves in the midst of a foreshadowing of events...
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Richard Condon
- Nov 16, 2019
- 4 min
To the Beat of His Own Drum - The 1913 Journey of Peter Guibert
As the United States transitioned into the 20th century, the memory of its own Civil War became more and more distant with the thinning...
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