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Letters from War: 1861 | A Pittston Photographer at Hoke's Run

Summary by Wynning History
“The enemy’s balls whistled like hail about our ears.” That was Sergeant Francis Woodhouse of Company F, 11th Pennsylvania, writing home to Pittston from Martinsburg, Virginia on July 6, 1861 – four days after his regiment had waded the Potomac River at Williamsport and walked into a firefight at Hoke’s Run. Harper’s Weekly illustration of the fighting at Hoke’s Run on July 2, 1861 Woodhouse was 30-years-old, a professional photographer in the L…
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Wynning History broke the news on Monday, July 6, 2026.
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