{"id":37,"date":"2010-06-23T18:13:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2010-09-23T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:56:12","slug":"the-shelling-of-carlisle-july-1-1863-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/the-shelling-of-carlisle-july-1-1863-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shelling of Carlisle: July 1, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 27, 1863,\u00a0Confederate General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5640\" target=\"_blank\">Richard S. Ewell <\/a>stopped at Carlisle for supplies, forage, and f<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/files\/2010\/06\/Carlisle-Shelling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/files\/2010\/06\/Carlisle-Shelling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>ood before moving towards Harrisburg. A few days later, Confederate General Jeb Stuart and his cavalry forces arrived near Carlisle looking for Ewell\u2019s troops.\u00a0 Instead found\u00a0<a title=\"General William F. Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/17310\" target=\"_blank\">General William F. \u201cBaldy\u201d Smith\u2019s <\/a>32<sup>nd<\/sup> and 33<sup>rd<\/sup> Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia and 1st New York Cavalry. \u00a0After Smith&#8217;s refusal to surrender, Stuart authorized <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6083\" target=\"_blank\">Maj. General Fitzhugh Lee <\/a>to start firing on the town late in the evening on July 1. \u00a0Lee&#8217;s artillery\u00a0fired about 80 shells into Carlisle, stirring up the militia and\u00a0townspeople but causing minimal injuries to both civilians and soldiers. \u00a0Shots landed in many places\u00a0including one at the Courthouse and two on the street wall of the First Presbyterian Church. Around midnight, Stuart received a message from <a title=\"General Robert E. Lee\" href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6078\" target=\"_blank\">General Robert E. Lee <\/a> stating that the army was in battle at <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/14461\" target=\"_blank\">Gettysburg<\/a> and to call off the action in Carlisle. \u00a0Before leaving, Fitzhugh Lee burned a lumberyard and set fire to the Carlisle Barracks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Harper\u2019s Weekly Magazine <\/em>issued on July 25, 1863, provides a clear outline of the happenings by the locals in Carlisle and a sketch of\u00a0 Main Street or present day High Street\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32858\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Nast<\/a>. The sketch shows the Rebels shelling women and children as well as the New\u00a0York militia, putting the town into immense chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 27, 1863,\u00a0Confederate General Richard S. Ewell stopped at Carlisle for supplies, forage, and food before moving towards Harrisburg. A few days later, Confederate General Jeb Stuart and his cavalry forces arrived near Carlisle looking for Ewell\u2019s troops.\u00a0 Instead &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/the-shelling-of-carlisle-july-1-1863-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Shelling of Carlisle: July 1, 1863<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","tag-carlisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}