{"id":245358,"date":"2026-07-16T23:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245358\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:44:06","slug":"civil-war-talk-set-at-waverly-community-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245358\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War talk set at Waverly Community House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WAVERLY TWP. \u2014\u00a0 A Civil War infantry unit with ties to Lackawanna County will be the subject of a lecture and book signing at the Waverly Community House on Aug. 5 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Texas author James Knarr wrote \u201cThe Susquehanna Union Volunteers.\u201d The Susquehanna Union Volunteers, or Company H of the 4th Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry, was the first company raised from Susquehanna County. It saw action at Gaines\u2019 Mill, Second Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg. A few members enlisted in Scranton and at least two are buried in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>The free program is co-sponsored by the Lackawanna Historical Society and the Waverly Community House. Copies of \u201cThe Susquehanna Union Volunteers\u201d will be available for purchase for $40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAVERLY TWP. \u2014\u00a0 A Civil War infantry unit with ties to Lackawanna County will be the subject of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179,2942,289,1053],"class_list":["post-245358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-susquehanna-county","tag-things-to-do","tag-waverly-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}