and women of his beloved Southland, who served actively in the rebel army, I know, as every man and woman in the South knows today, that Lincoln and his associates waged a just and honorable war. It was a matter of saving the Commonwealth, of pre- serving the Union of States from the perilous position

Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry . . . War to Suppress the Rebellion 1861-1865. H. P. Moyer, 1911, 107, 120-126, 132, 467. 4 Original letter in the possession of the writer. 5 The regular army record of Edward E. Wood is contained in Biographical Register of Officers and Graduates of the United

GLENN E. BILLET THE DEPARTMENT OF THE SUSQUEHANNA Here for the first time is the history of the military department and its com- mander who was charged with repel- ling the Confederate invaders of Penn- sylvania. INTRODUCTION Many historians state that 1863 was the crucial year of the Civil War

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