participated in Sherman's famous march to the sea,. He died July 15, 1893, and is buried in the Lancaster Cemetery marked with this monu- ment DAVID MILES Born Nov. 26, 1831 Died July 15, 1893 Lieut. Col. 79th Regt. P. V. V. Inf. War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 Perryville Stone River Chickamauga Savannah

survival of the United States. A great Greek civil war had been fought and a meaningful history written. Yet this legacy did not prevent the War Between the States. Does the legacy of wars in the past leave us today with the hopelessness of generalization that armed conflict is unavoidable? Not necessarily

; or One Hundred and Sixty-Second of the Line Pennsylvania Volunteers. Theodore W. Bean, Phil- adelphia, 1865, 32-3. The writer has included some incidents from his per- sonal recollection of Edward E. Wood. 3 The Civil War Record of Edward E. Wood is contained in the History of the Seventeenth

attempts to have it moved. On April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was attacked and the great Civil War of the United States was underway. Both North and Souh called upon its citizens to back its stand. In the North, all the citizens were called upon to do their duty and stand by the Stars and Stripes and sup- port

Horn. INTRODUCTION The "Old Buck Cannon" was a ceremonial piece that made a precise debut into history in 1856. Its departure is obscure, not without mystery. After a brief appearance in the Civil War, the "Old Buck Cannon" is known to the best of my knowledge only in legend. It was a Griffen gun

the Middle Creek, heard these menacing accounts of the rebel invasion. Perhaps his anxieties were reinforced by speculation that his mill might become a casualty of war captured by invaders or destroyed to avoid capture. On the evening of the thirtieth he went down the road from his home in Hopeland

President he would accept, if he was not interfered with from Washington. This the President would not promise him, therefore your Uncle declined the offer. I am positive as to the date being June 2nd . . ." 3. Warren W. Hassler, Jr., The First Day's Battle of Gettysburg, "Civil War History," Quarterly

that the blood of these butchered souls will be heavy upon the souls of the authors of war.81 The United States' Gazette's extreme sentiment was the excep- tion rather than the rule. British activities around the mouth of the Susquehanna in mid-May, 1813 temporarily unified both parties in the

dated December 2 and 19, 1861, and January 3, 1862, to Harriet, he discussed the then current delicate international ques- tion, the "Trent Affair," involving the Confederacy and British neu- trality early in the Civil War. In the letter of January 3 Buchanan gave his views about an indiscretion of

decades after the Civil War, as more recently, were in- clined to emphasize the evils of secession and slavery as causes of an irrepressible conflict. The few Southern historians thought in terms of the "War for Southern Independence" or "War Between the States." In the twentieth century there would be