Name: "Gone to the Seat of War": Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region Responds to Confederate invasion
Start: 2024-07-02T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center

$"Gone to the Seat of War": Pennsylvania\u2019s Anthracite Region Responds to Confederate invasion$

In this presentation, public historian Jake Wynn will highlight how the industrial communities of Northeastern Pennsylvania responded to the threat of Confederate invasion in the summer of 1863. This region, in many ways the industrial heartland of the Keystone State in the mid-19th century, sent thousands of emergency militia to fight off the invasion.
This presentation is part of Seminary Ridge Museum's Gettysburg 161st anniversary programming - full schedule here: https://www.seminaryridgemuseum.org/events/battle-of-gettysburg-161st-anniversary-on-the-ridge
The invasion also took place at a crucial moment in the region’s history as class and ethnic struggles threatened to boil over into violence. This presentation will examine the complex situation in the mining towns and villages of Northeastern Pennsylvania in this pivotal moment in the state’s history.
Jake Wynn is the Senior Marketing and Communications Manager at Visit Frederick, the Destination Marketing Organization for Frederick County, Maryland. He previously served as the Director of Interpretation at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland.
Wynn writes about the history of Pennsylvania’s Coal Region on his blog, WynningHistory.com, and Facebook at Jake Wynn - Public Historian. He is also the co-host of a new podcast: Public History with Jake and Justin.
He is a native of Williamstown, Pennsylvania.