dispatched under the care of Mr. Henderson one of my mates, with the most pressing orders to make the greatest possible haste. I obtained with some difficulty the oyl and Sulphur from the Military Stores Department tho there was a demur for want of the original orders from Gates and the War Board; and as to

, and because of this, we have here Pennsylvania history with a decided Lancaster County flavor. This sketch is concerned with the children of those gallant Pennsylvania men who defended the Union in the years of our Civil War; and can there- fore properly be considered as Civil War history. Also, as it