and women of his beloved Southland, who served actively in the rebel army, I know, as every man and woman in the South knows today, that Lincoln and his associates waged a just and honorable war. It was a matter of saving the Commonwealth, of pre- serving the Union of States from the perilous position

duty on the field and in the town, and pursuing and harrassing the retreating army of Lee. 99th Penna. Volunteers. 107th Regiment. Col. E. D. Roath, of Marietta, related his experiences in a diary, which was presented several years ago to the Lancaster County Historical Society. 113th Regiment (12th

an Inland Town we do not perceive ourselves inferior to any within the Dominion of the United States." Our pride lingers ; we ask no Federal loans for schools or other public works. We are sufficient unto ourselves ; content to be the capital of a properous and proficient American agriculture

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

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

contents — self-government under the law — and because it has become the rallying point for the united effort of the whole city and county of Lancaster in meeting the great emer- gency of 1942, and in helping us to win the eighth war — as we have won the other seven wars — since the days when the charter

with Stake; pretty bad; I ought to have stopped with Mr. Slough, where one is very comfortable. "The city of Lancaster is the largest inland city of the United States. . . There is a large town-hall and several very good brick houses, several smaller ones, also of brick, and a large number of log