At the time of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Emanuel Ziegler was employed by the Lutheran Theological Seminary as dormitory steward; his wife, Mary, served as dormitory matron. Along with five of their children, they occupied quarters on the first floor of the dormitory. The reminiscences in the following pages were written years later by two of their children—Lydia Catharine Ziegler, age 12 at the time of the battle, and her brother Hugh McClain Ziegler, age 10. While details may have become blurred by the years, what remains clear as crystal is the shock of this harrowing experience. This is number three in the Adams County Historical Society's Civilian Accounts Series.