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

Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, on the first morning of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, and the subsequent disclosure of his secret engagement to be mar- ried to a handsome and talented young woman whom he had met five years before. The sequence of events in the opening phases of the battle has

activi- ties of a city militia, and the city celebrations of Lancaster. Franklin & Marshall College LAWRENCE VAN HORN Lancaster, Pennsylvania ABOUT THE AUTHOR A native of New Jersey, Mr. Van Horn has lived in Pennsylvania most of his life. He was graduated from the Lansdowne-Aldan High School in 1956