My Jan. 24 story about the ongoing demolition of Andrew Carnegie's former Pittsburgh Locomotive Works buildings drew nearly two dozen e-mails and phone calls from readers troubled by it. (Yesterday)
Union Army Capt. Thomas Espy has long lain in an unmarked grave. But a photograph of his determined face still casts a forceful presence in the Carnegie veterans post that bears his name. (02/08/2010)
The Captain Thomas Espy Post's charter was granted in December 1879. The document lists 21 members. Mansfield became Carnegie after the turn of the century. (02/08/2010)
Thomas Espy, a prominent resident of Upper St. Clair Township, was 50 when he enlisted in the army on July 4, 1861. He was appointed captain and given command of Company H, 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteers. (02/08/2010)
On Memorial Day, 1905, veterans from the Captain Thomas Espy Post gathered at the Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall in Carnegie for a group portrait. (02/08/2010)
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