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were formed. The Civil War had an enormous effect on the United States as a country, as a government, and as a people, and this regimental history is one small avenue by which to learn how we developed the beliefs and feelings we have today. �I must thank Mrs. Lundgren and the Lancaster County

A Soldier's Report: The Battle on Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain By Kersey Bradley, 79th Regiment, P. V. I. Annotated by Martin H. Bradley The 79th, "The Lancaster County Regiment," despite heavy casualties held its position at Chickamauga until ordered to withdraw.' At Chattanooga the

the outbreak of the Revolution, the state decided to use these facilities as prisons for the captured British and Hessian soldiers. The Hessians were mer- cenary soldiers from Hesse, Germany, hired to fight for the British. The non-commissioned prisoners were confined in the barracks, which was

under the Articles of Confederation, lucrative and at times unpopular law practice — he defended a number of alleged Tories in Philadelphia against charges of treason — state-level politics as a leading opponent of the Pennsylvania state government with its unicameral legislature, and support of the

" were known, ironmasters formed in- dustrial dynasties through the marriages of their children.) Robert Cole- man"s daughter, Ann, became engaged to James Buchanan, then a promis- �14 JOURNAL Robert Coleman ing young attorney in Lancaster, later to become President of the United States. The marriage