{"id":174,"date":"2010-08-07T21:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T01:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2010-09-02T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T21:34:31","slug":"confederate-raid-on-chambersburg-pennsylvania-october-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/confederate-raid-on-chambersburg-pennsylvania-october-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"Confederate raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (October 1862)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Before going to bed on October 10, 1862, Chambersburg <\/a>resident William Heyser noted in his diary<\/a> that he had \u201csecreted some of my most valuable papers.\u201d Confederate cavalry under the command of General J. E. B. Stuart<\/a> had arrived several hours earlier and forced the town to surrender. Union forces had been caught by surprise and none were available to defend the town. \u201cIt would have been an act of madness to have made resistance\u2026and would have involved the total destruction of the town,\u201d as the Chambersburg (PA) Valley Spirit<\/em> noted<\/a>. The raid, as the Milwaukee (WI) Sentienel<\/em> described<\/a>, \u201cwas the most daring adventure of the war\u201d so far. Besides gathering intelligence, one of the Confederate\u2019s other objectives was to take as many supplies as possible. Horses were one key item and Alexander Kelly McClure<\/a>, an assistant adjutant Union general, later recalled<\/a> how ten horses were taken from his farm. (You can read McClure\u2019s full account of the Confederate raid \u2013 \u201cA Night With Stuart\u2019s Raiders”- here<\/a>). Yet as one Confederate soldier\u2019s letter revealed, they also seized a number of other supplies. \u201cI got 8 pair of boots, 4 over coats, 5 pair of pantaloons, 2 hats, 6 pair of socks, 6 pr. Draws, 6 over & under shirts, [and] some coffe & sugar\u201d during the raid, as Edward Cottrell told his grandmother<\/a>. As Confederates left Chambersburg on October 11, they burned warehouses that held government supplies. One contained ammunition and, as Heyser described<\/a>, \u201cthe succeeding explosions of shells and power was tremendous.\u201d While Union forces were dispatched to intercept and capture the raiders, General Stuart evaded them and returned to Virginia without any major engagements. You can read more about the raid in Emory M. Thomas\u2019 Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart<\/em> (1986) and Jeffry D. Wert\u2019s Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart <\/em>(2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before going to bed on October 10, 1862, Chambersburg resident William Heyser noted in his diary that he had \u201csecreted some of my most valuable papers.\u201d Confederate cavalry under the command of General J. E. B. Stuart had arrived several …<\/p>\n

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