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Second Saturday – August

When

Sat, Aug 8, 2026
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Location

History Center Museum

Ticket Info

$5 per person
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We are excited to welcome authors Michael Shupp and Scott Mingus on August 8th to speak about “Fearless Sons of War” The 200th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War.
About the Book:
In the summer of 1864, President Abraham Lincoln called for 500,000 men to join the Union Army to replenish ranks depleted by disease and combat. The 200th Pennsylvania Volunteers was among the infantry regiments raised in response to this call to arms. Serving for a term of one year, the Keystoners received initial training at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg and then were transported to Virginia, where they saw their initial action along the Bermuda Hundred Line. The 200th suffered its worst loss in the fighting to retake Fort Stedman during the Siege of Petersburg in March 1865, losing more than 100 men in a 20-minute stand-up firefight with the Confederate attackers. The fifth color bearer of the day planted the flag on the rampart of Fort Stedman as the regiment helped recapture the earthworks from the Confederates. The 200th Pennsylvania assisted in the capture of Confederate Fort Mahone on April 2, 1865, and then helped repulse multiple counterattacks.

About the Authors

Mike Shupp is a ninth-generation York County native. A Penn State graduate in mechanical engineering, he worked for some well-known manufacturing companies in the York area over a 47-year span. Growing up a short distance from Gettysburg, he became interested in the Civil War at an early age. This interest carried through the years as he became involved in Civil War reenacting for many years.

Now retired, he has turned his attention to researching his family’s history in the area and has discovered that he has quite a direct and extended family that served in Company B of the 200th PVI. His meeting and collaboration with Scott Mingus has been a dream come true in telling the story of the 200th.

Scott Mingus is a retired scientist and executive in the global specialty paper industry. The Ohio native graduated from Miami University. He was part of the research team that developed the first commercially successful self-adhesive U.S. postage stamps, and he was a pioneer in the early development of bar code labels.

He has written more than 35 Civil War and Underground Railroad books and numerous articles for Gettysburg Magazine and other historical journals. Mingus writes the Cannonball blog on the Civil War history of York County, Pa., where he and his wife Debi live. The Gettysburg Civil War Round Table presented Mingus and co-author Eric Wittenberg with the 2023 Bachelder-Coddington Award for the best new book on the Gettysburg Campaign, If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania