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Reception Opening Important New Civil War Collection and Honoring the Donor,...
Lucius A. Gerry, 1st Lt., Battery B., 1st Maruland Light Artilery The Society will host a reception on June 2 to honor Dr. Davy McCall, the generous donor of the Gerry Collection, an important new...
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Digitizing Cecil County’s Civil War Collection
Leah Davies hard at work scanning in Civil War documents at the Historical Society. Tucked away in an upstairs office at the Historical Society of Cecil County, Leah Davies has been busy all summer...
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Cecil County Remembers the Battle of Antietam
150 years ago, the bloodiest one day battle of the American Civil War was fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland. It came to be known as Antietam. Two great armies, numbering upwards of 100,000 warriors,...
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Cecil County Reacts to the Emancipation Proclamation
A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation: Photo Source: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center “All persons held as slaves within any state, or any designated part of a State, the people...
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Cecil Minister Had to Pick Two for Execution in Civil War
Window at Cherry Hill United Methodist Church. As the Society prepares to open the Civil War exhibit and rollout a virtual resource library for research related to the conflict, we are sharing some of...
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Civil War Diaries Enter Cyberspace
In the fall of 1862, The Rev. Joseph T. Brown volunteered to serve as chaplain of the 6th Maryland Volunteers. On his arrival in camp near Williamsport, Maryland, Brown wrote to his family in Cherry...
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