Tag Archives: Glendale

A Pennsylvania Blacksmith Goes to War

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Charles R. Bowen found it fitting to include a brief biographical sketch of his father, Levi A. Bowen, in the Biographical Annals of Cumberland County Pennsylvania. Charles was around thirty years of age … Continue reading →

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“Such a Prize Within Our Reach…”—Secretary Salazar’s Glendale Announcement

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

“Never, before or after, did the fates put such a prize within our reach,” Confederate memoirist E.P. Alexander wrote of the Battle of Glendale. But for many visitors to Richmond National Battlefield Park, the Glendale battlefield is merely a green … Continue reading →

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