{"id":246,"date":"2010-08-17T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2010-08-31T16:51:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T20:51:58","slug":"rupp-house-mechanicsburg-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/2010\/08\/17\/rupp-house-mechanicsburg-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupp House &#8211; Mechanicsburg, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/rupp_house.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-247\" title=\"Rupp House\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/rupp_house-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/rupp_house-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/rupp_house-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/rupp_house.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Rupp House in <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9260\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanicsburg<\/a>, Pennsylvania served as the headquarters for Confederate General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5976\" target=\"_blank\">Albert G. Jenkins<\/a>\u2019 brigade during the Gettysburg campaign in late June 1863. On June 28 Jenkins\u2019 troops captured Mechanicsburg without encountering any resistance. Two days later, however, Jenkins received General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6078\" target=\"_blank\">Robert E. Lee\u2019s<\/a> order to regroup at <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/14461\" target=\"_blank\">Gettysburg<\/a>. As Jenkins\u2019 brigade left on June 30, his rearguard became involved in the <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/2010\/08\/17\/battle-of-sporting-hill-june-30-1863\/\" target=\"_blank\">Battle of Sporting Hill<\/a>. The Rupp House was built in 1787 by Jonas Rupp. His grandson\u2019s family owned the house in 1863 and they remained in <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/12312\" target=\"_blank\">Lancaster<\/a>, Pennsylvania while the Confederates were in Mechanicsburg. The Rupp House is at 5115 East Trindle Road, but it is currently not open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more in an essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/explorepahistory.com\/hmarker.php?markerId=713\" target=\"_blank\">ExplorePAhistory.com<\/a>, Robert Grant Crist\u2019s article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/dpubs.libraries.psu.edu\/DPubS?service=UI&amp;version=1.0&amp;verb=Display&amp;handle=psu.ph\/1141403362\" target=\"_blank\">Highwater 1863: The Confederate Approach to Harrisburg<\/a>\u201d (<em>Pennsylvania History<\/em> 1963), and in Wilbur Sturtevant Nye\u2019s <em>Here Come The Rebels!<\/em> (1965).<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of Flickr user cthoyes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rupp House in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania served as the headquarters for Confederate General Albert G. Jenkins\u2019 brigade during the Gettysburg campaign in late June 1863. On June 28 Jenkins\u2019 troops captured Mechanicsburg without encountering any resistance. Two days later, however, Jenkins received General Robert E. Lee\u2019s order to regroup at Gettysburg. As Jenkins\u2019 brigade left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","tag-mechanisburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}