, calls this the critical period of American history ; and wrongly the schools give it very little attention. The service of Lancaster County in the French and Indian War, was indispensable. Our county was engaged in all of the classes of war services of that conflict. We furnished a major amount of the

Indian outrages. We had men in the three battalions of the Pennsylvania Provincial Battalion, consist- ing of 7 companies of foot (Do. 61). In the Augusta Regiment of Pennsylvania, we had Ensigns Samuel Atlee and Samuel Miles, two glorious names in the Revolutionary War 20 years later, at the head of

FORWARD About William Clark and the 79th Pennsylvania The 79th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a three-year regiment formed in the wake of Lincoln's second call for troops. Its cadre were men who had drilled in the pre-war militia units in and around Lancaster, and others who had seen