At 11 a.m. on dreary, rainy Saturday, July 4, 1863, as Gen. Robert E. Lee’s battered Army of Northern Virginia was retreating from Gettysburg, a train chugged into the Lancaster station at Queen and ...
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA0290, 1989. Monumental News, June 1894, pg. 281. Sharp, Lewis I., "John Quincy Adams Ward ...
Gen. John Fulton Reynolds, Lancaster native and rising officer in the Union Army during the Civil War, was not present at the pivotal Battle of Antietam, Maryland, on Sept. 17, 1862. His absence, ...