Tag: Civil War Journal of a Union Soldier

• SMALL TOWNS ROCK – GRAFTON AND PHILIPPI, WEST VIRGINIA

  

  Photo: On the dam trail in Tygart Lake State Park By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social We stumbled upon a unique area in West Virginia. Each year we visit family in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The three hundred miles between them takes us through West Virginia and the New River Gorge, which we’ve visited several…

  P. C. Zick

  July 8, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, Civil War, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, Small Town, travel

  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Battle of Philippa, Civil War, Civil War Journal of a Union Soldier, coal country, covered bridge, railroads, United States history, West Virginia

• Remembering the Brave Heroes

  My great-grandfather, Harmon Camburn, enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 two weeks after the start of the Civil War. He was nineteen. His infantry unit, 2nd Michigan, fought in several major battles during the horrific war. His final and nearly fatal active participation in the war occurred on November 24, 1863. His unit had…

  P. C. Zick

  May 29, 2022

  Books by P. C. Zick, Civil War, Ramblings of a Writer

  Civil War, Civil War Journal of a Union Soldier, Confederate army, Confederate prisoner of war, heroes, Knoxville, Memorial Day, Union army, Union Soldier