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

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plans for reconstruction after the Civil War infuriated Stevens who was one of the leaders of the Radical Repub- lican faction. He opposed the moderate measures first proposed by Lincoln and later urged by President Andrew Johnson. Stevens insisted the South must be crushed and those who supported the