addition there was no required age for retirement, and there were, prior to the Civil War, colonels commanding regiments �so old they had to be lifted into their saddles. So matters were discouraging for junior officers. It was during this period that McClellan, Grant, W. T. Sherman and others resigned and

, 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