Letters from War: 1861 | Camp Slifer at Chambersburg PA 1861

Letters from War: 1861 | Camp Slifer at Chambersburg PA 1861

In the days after the 8th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry assembled at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the unit, made up mostly of volunteers from Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal fields, moved toward the Keystone State’s southern border and a region that would be hotly contested later in the Civil War. In Sergeant Charles Cyphers second war-time letter to his former employers at the Pittston Gazette, he wrote from the Cumberland Valley c…