JAMES D. McMAHON HISTORY OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT IN LANCASTER How a Civil War monument event- ually came to the crossroads of Lan- caster where it has resisted successfully the efforts of anti-traditionists is told by a police officer with an interest in the monument and history. In

MARY R. MALONEY "DEAR KATE" An account of the tragic aftermath of the death of Major General John Fulton Reynolds, U.S.A., on the First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg. One of the most poignant and yet scarcely known tragedies of the Civil War was the death of Major General John Fulton Reynolds of

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

these implements to fight the rapidly spreading flames 60 The borough of Wrightsville had one or two fire engines but Gordon, in his Reminiscences of the Civil War, stated that no engines were available. The engines may have been removed to Columbia "either for safekeeping or to pre- vent their use when