Letters Relating to Colonial Military Hospitals in Lancaster County By GEORGE L. HEIGES I N THE archives of the Pennsylvania Historical Society there are several collections in which may be found letters which give us some very definite information about military hospitals in Lancaster County

, and because of this, we have here Pennsylvania history with a decided Lancaster County flavor. This sketch is concerned with the children of those gallant Pennsylvania men who defended the Union in the years of our Civil War; and can there- fore properly be considered as Civil War history. Also, as it

five thousand, one hundred and sixty miles long." It will be seen from this resume that, even though he wandered far from his native heath in a year, he spent about one-third of the year in his state of Pennsylvania. Time after time he returned to his own county of Lancaster. In 1855, he attended two