Battle of Hanover Photo Archives

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additional information located at Our Town, the Barbara Chronister Collection and the Clausen Collection
Civil War Train
at Hanover Junction
November 1863		 Frederick Street
circa 1906		 Baltimore Street
circa 1909		 Picket Monument
1904
Mary Leader Shaw Marion Hall, circa 1908
Used as a hospital during the Battle of Hanover, it was later converted into an auxiliary classroom between 1885 and 1904. [Clausen Collections]		 Picket Monument
1908		 Kilpatrick Statue
2001

This monument located at Center Square has been known by several names. The word picket refers to a soldier (in this case, mounted) guarding his fellow soldiers. The nick name Kilpatrick is in reference to Major-General Judson Kilpatrick, commander of Union forces engaged at Hanover during the Civil War.

The monument was moved from the center of the square to the North East corner.
Heights south of town
occupied by Stuart during the Battle of Hanover
circa 1898
The Eichelberger building was not constructed until 1896.		    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Civil War Train at Hanover Junction, November 1863

The Confederates were active in the Hanover area starting on June 26, 1863. One of their objectives was to burn the bridges around Hanover Junction to disrupt transportation and telegraph contact between Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. The bridges were burned and the telegraph line cut between the 26th and 29th of June. Hanover Junction is several miles northeast of Hanover.

Lincoln passed through Hanover Junction in October of 1863 to deliver his "Gettysburg Address" at the Cemetery in Gettysburg. He stopped at Hanover and delivered a short address at the train station which is located several 100 yards south of the Eichelberger Building. Union batteries had been placed on what was to become the north campus of the Eichelberg Academy, later the High School.

Contributed by Paul B. Hentz (Class of 1964)

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Frederick Street, Hanover, PA circa 1906

Contributed by Paul B. Hentz (Class of 1964)

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Baltimore Street, circa 1909

Contributed by Paul B. Hentz (Class of 1964)

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Mary Leader Shaw

Contributed by Paul B. Hentz (Class of 1964)

Click on picture for full screen version          Story of Mary Leader Shaw by York Daily Record