Material: Book Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: 55-79 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 3 Call Number: 974.9

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

-manufacturing and war-provisioning activities should have been a target of the invaders, but the British made no move towards Lancaster. The state government felt safe in Lancaster and remained there throughout the British occupation of Philadelphia. (From 1799 to 1812 the state government made Lancaster its

prosper the public councils of the whole. To inspire our Commanders both by land and sea, and all under them, with that wisdom and fortitude which may render them fit instruments, under the Providence of Almighty God, to secure for these United States, the great- est of all human blessings, "Independence

what is kept by women and children. There has already been a battle in John Wright's wheat field." This may be called the first battle of the "Wheat Field," for there was an- other in 1735 (1 A., 464). He says our people also aggravated the Mary- landers by calling them the "hominy gentry." Governors