The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997). Earl J. Hess provides insight into the combat experience of the average Union soldier in The Union Soldier in Battle.
Washington, PA. Sponsored Topics. Washington is a city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, and part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The population was 13,663 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Washington County and is located in the southwestern part of the state.
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle. The Commonwealth is bordered by Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to the northwest, New York to the north, and New Jersey to the east. Pennsylvania is the 33rd-largest, the 5th-most populous, and the 9th-most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's five most populous cities are Philadelphia (1,567,872), Pittsburgh (303,625), Allentown (120,443), Erie (98,593), and Reading (87,575). The state capital, and its ninth-largest city, is Harrisburg.