A new York County Heritage Trust publication now available

Letters from Home: York County Pennsylvania during the Civil War

Letters from Home offers a rare personal insight into the Civil War home front in southern York County through twenty-three letters written to Harvey Anderson from 1863 to 1865. These letters were not from Harvey but to him, sharing home town news and politics. In one letter from August 1864, Harvey’s cousin Aggie Anderson wrote the following: “…they are going to lay a tax on the People for the purpose of getting volunteers you had better believe Coz if it don’t make some of the Copperheads cross they say that the South is going to whip and it is no use to send any more men to the army if I thought such was the case I would go myself rather than the South should gain there Independence.” This is a story of a family coping with the distance that divided them from one another and shares the fiercely advocated opinions about the war that divided southern York County communities. This softcover volume is indexed with photographs and is available for $19.95 

The 2012 edition of the York County Heritage Trust's Journal of York County Heritage is now available for $6.95 in both our Book Shop and on our website. It describes the impact experienced by York Countians during several national events; the Civil War, the religious Great Awakening and the 20^th century great migration north of African Americans from the south. Learn about Penn Common’s U.S. Army General Hospital and civilian losses during the Civil War. Read about the building of York’s tabernacle and the arrival to York of residents from Bamberg, South Carolina.