participated in Sherman's famous march to the sea,. He died July 15, 1893, and is buried in the Lancaster Cemetery marked with this monu- ment DAVID MILES Born Nov. 26, 1831 Died July 15, 1893 Lieut. Col. 79th Regt. P. V. V. Inf. War of the Rebellion 1861-1865 Perryville Stone River Chickamauga Savannah

the scenes of carnage. By military orders, these people, afflicted with what is known locally as "wunnerfitsich," were forced to dig graves for the dead bodies of both man and beast. While the volunteers guarded the line of the Susquehanna, while other Lancaster boys participated actively in the

by clay holes.” 19 William Willis, skillful bricklayer and builder, erected the walls of York County’s first courthouse between the years 1754-56, and lived to see his masterpiece of Georgian colonial architecture become the capitol of the United States during the period from September, 1777, to June

Office of Pennsylvania, October 3, 1801, to April 4, 1809. Trustee of Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., June 17, 1813. A booklet, called the "Development of the United States Cap- itol," issued as House Document, No. 35, of the 71st Congress, 1st Session, 1929, completely ignores, except for the survey

he was captured by the rebels. Later released, he returned to Sacramento. The native California government offered to buy his settle- ment in the hope they would stop immigration, but Sutter refused to sell. Then came the Mexican War with the United States. Foreseeing the eventual result of the war

in the states referred to. And what his difficulties were, especially in Ohio and Michigan, may readily be imagined when we remember the thirty years of Indian turmoil in this western region during the period of the French and Indian War, the Pontiac Conspiracy, and the American Revolution. We in the

retreating Union troops planned to retrieve their mounts and flee in a comfortable and hasty manner. But the name was attached to this place long before the Civil War. David Eshleman, who lived near the Hollow, repeatedly told his son, H. Frank Eshleman, Esq., of an accident which occurred there. Driving

Indiantown, the inscription states that William Penn visited there in 1701, but it is silent on his former visit of 1683. Yet we have the testimonies of early writers to that fact. Buck says, "We have the authority of Oldmixon, derived from a personal inter- view, that sometime this year [1683] Penn made a

vessel called the Susquehanna, there to study the iron industry.6 USS SUSQUEHANNA IN 1917 The USS Susquehanna was formerly the North German Lloyd Line ship Rhein which had refugeed in the port of Baltimore, Maryland, and was formally seized when the United States entered the World War. The Rhein had been

Lancaster [to Philadelphia] in a day." 39 Dr. Jedidiah Morse, father of the inventor of the telegraph, visited Lan- caster in 1797, and described Lancaster as "a handsome and flourishing post- town, the capital of Lancaster County, and the largest inland town of the United States. It is pleasantly situated