Thought this would be interesting to share...



Just last week or so, I finished up reviewing the soldiers of the 1st United States Volunteers who are buried at Custer National Cemetery in North Dakota. All of these men were Confederate soldiers who, after being captured, sent to Pt. Lookout, Md., and opting to take the oath... enlisted in the US Volunteers. It's an interesting list of men and two on the list are actually Page Countians... Aleshire and Skelton. Most died of different… Continue

I figured I'd start adding a little more content related to our SVR group... this is the first of several I hope to be adding...

Major Alexander M. Flory

For all marked Civil War-related sites in Page County, see this link

By Robert H. Moore, II, as it appeared in his History and Heritage column in the Page News and Courier:



The earliest record available on the Laconia family of Page County is the birth of Wade Laconia in Camden, New Jersey on September 30, 1827. Little is known of his parents, except that he was “of foreign parentage” (the obituary of Wade’s son, James Wade Laconia, claimed, most likely correctly, that the family was of Irish descent). No traces of the family (at least the way… Continue