regiment saw no action but its position afforded an excellent view of the successful assaults on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. A recently discovered letter of Kersey Bradley of Company A gives a vivid eye-witness account of the battle. 2 The brothers Lewis H. and Kersey, sons of Emmor and Sara

, they lost 216 men killed, wounded and missing. It is one ofthe higher loss percentages of all the units in the Civil War. Their service there was part of a fine stand by their brigade, led by Col. John C. Starkweather, ofWisconsin. While recovering from that battle, the brigade was assigned to guard

were formed. The Civil War had an enormous effect on the United States as a country, as a government, and as a people, and this regimental history is one small avenue by which to learn how we developed the beliefs and feelings we have today. �I must thank Mrs. Lundgren and the Lancaster County

enclosed with a strong stockade. The officers were "paroled" and lived in rented quarters among the townspeople. Close to the barracks was the stone tavern known as the "Cat", where General Moses Hazen, commandant of the prison guards maintained his headquarters.2 �From where did these prisoners come? On

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the

, (Vol. 10 of The Pictorial History of the Civil War), published by arrangement with A. S- Barnes & Co. Inc., 1957, New York by Castle Books, Pg. 248. 6. Ibid, Pg- 247. 7. 0. R. Vol, XXVII, Pg. 491, Report of John B. Gordon. 8. John W. Urban, Battle Field and Prison Pen,Hubbard Bros., Philadelphia, PA

the only time in Lancaster history where the prison was taken over by outside armed force. A letter was sent to Governor Ogle of Maryland by the Council demanding that Charleton and his accomplices be delivered to the Pennsylvania authorities and that the escaped prisoners be returned to the Lancaster

often split when fired, endangering both friend and foe. Information received in 1863 from the Phoenix Steel Company stated, "Subsequently, (up until 1865) 1400 of these fine 3-inch light field artillery pieces were manufactured at the Phoenixville Plant, a number of which saw active service during the

Wyoming Valley.' The territory known as the Wyoming Valley in this period included most of the counties of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming, and Bradford. This area was claimed by Connecticut, and her citizens had been settling there. It became the scene of a bitter civil war. The colonial governments of

upper room for worship — where this congregation first gathered. Grosh was a gifted preacher and organizer with Martin Boehm 1725-1812 of earliest United Brethren Church. (Erected by Ranck"s Church and the Lancaster District United Methodist Church) Sign is located on the ground of Ranck"s Church, Ranck