Letter, Camp at Halls Hill, Va., to fellow Cressons, 1861 November 2.

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Letter, Camp at Halls Hill, Va., to fellow Cressons, 1861 November 2.

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Goheen writes to his fellow students in the Cresson Literary Society at the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Centre County, Pa., about his activities in the Civil War, and sends news of fellow enlisted classmates William S. Hill (class of 1862) of McKeesport, and William M. McAllister (class of 1863) of Covington who enlisted in the Confederate States Army.

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Cresson Literary Society (State College, Pa.)

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The Cresson Literary Society was founded in March 1859 after the formation of the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania (now Pennsylvania State University). The members engaged in debates, essay and declamation writing, and orations with its campus rival, the Washington Agricultural Literary Society. With the rise of fraternities and a more diversified student life, the society declined until it dissolved in June 1895. From the description of Cresson Literary Society records, 1859-189...

Goheen, Joseph R., d. 1929.

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Joseph R. Goheen of Pine Grove Mills, Pa., left college at the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1861. He served with the 83rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Army of the Potomac, at the siege of Yorktown and battles of Groveton, Brighton, and second Bull Run. He died at National Military Home in Kansas. From the description of Letter, Camp at Halls Hill, Va., to fellow Cressons, 1861 November 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat ...

McAllister, William Mitchell, 1843-1912

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Hill, William Steinert

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