Record #:

7776

Author(s):

Strickland, G. Kent

Abstract:

In search of information about the grandfather that he never knew, G. Kent Strickland discovered a little-known Civil War story. Strickland was told that his grandfather Thomas Strickland died in a railroad accident in Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. After years of research, Kent discovered that Thomas was captured at Cold Harbor and that the railroad accident occurred in Shohola, Pennsylvania. A total of sixty-seven confederate prisoners of war and Union guards were killed when two trains collided.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 6, Nov 1986, p20-22, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Railroad accidents--Pennsylvania