In April 1861, as the first shots of the Civil War echoed from Fort Sumter, young men across Pennsylvania’s Coal Region rushed to answer President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers. Confederate assault on Fort Sumter, April 1861 Among them was Charles M. Cyphers, a 19-year-old printer working in the office of the Pittston Gazette. Like so many others in Luzerne County, he left behind his trade and stepped off into the military in a country …
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