MARY LOUISA WALKER ROBERTS* By HELEN NOBLE WORST B LOCKADE-RUNNING during the last days of the Civil War was a serious business, fraught with almost certain disaster ; an adventure to make strong men quail and turn back ; and which held unmitigated terror for a woman. Yet Mary Louisa Walker Roberts

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equality, Lincoln not only saved the Union, but he incarnated the spirit which alone can preserve it. These are but a few of the tributes paid to him by, men of note. FOUR ATTEND THE ENCAMPMENT Only four of the few remaining Civil War veterans of Lancaster County were able to accept the invitation of their