MARY LOUISA WALKER ROBERTS* By HELEN NOBLE WORST B LOCKADE-RUNNING during the last days of the Civil War was a serious business, fraught with almost certain disaster ; an adventure to make strong men quail and turn back ; and which held unmitigated terror for a woman. Yet Mary Louisa Walker Roberts

, 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

The Patriot Daughters of Lancaster By ALBERT K HOSTETTER T HE Civil War burst upon the United States almost like a thunder storm in a clear sky. It was, however, but like the eruption of a volcano whose pent-up fires had for ages been gathering strength for the final explosion. It was brought about

LAWRENCE VAN HORN PROFESSOR KOEPPEN: RIGHT OR WRONG? The author of other Civil War period studies published previously, Mr. Van Horn now turns his attention to the argument advanced by Professor Koep- pen of Franklin and Marshall College. Adolphus Ludwig Koeppen was a native of Denmark, a Greek by

M. LUTHER HEISEY THE GALLANT SEVENTY-NINTH REGIMENT Mr. Heisey turns the spotlight on Lan- caster County's most representative Civil War unit, chronicling the march- es and feats of that brave regiment. In this centennial anniversary period of the tremendous struggle known to us as our Civil War

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

MARY R. MALONEY "DEAR KATE" An account of the tragic aftermath of the death of Major General John Fulton Reynolds, U.S.A., on the First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg. One of the most poignant and yet scarcely known tragedies of the Civil War was the death of Major General John Fulton Reynolds of

. . " (Washington, Government printing office; 1928). �Stevens; (2) correspondence to him which is interesting in that it reflects his influential position; (3) early Civil war correspond- ence. We have, throughout this paper, preserved the original punctuation and spelling as far as possible, even where there are