Looking Back-1913
by James Rada, Jr. Thurmont’s Part in the 50th Gettysburg Reunion Three hundred cavalrymen rode through Thurmont on June 25, 1913. They arrived on Western Maryland Railroad from Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia. They unloaded their mounts from the train and rode through the town on Wednesday morning. They were part of the second invasion…
Local Authors Tell a Little-Known Story About Gettysburg in New Book
Richard D. L. Fulton and James Rada, Jr. will be holding a book siging at St. Philomena’s on the Emmitsburg Square in April. When were the last U.S. Marines killed in the line of duty on the Gettysburg battlefield? If you said 1863, you’d be wrong. The year was 1922. Two marine aviators crashed their…
