“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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