{"id":25,"date":"2010-08-29T18:48:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/?p=25"},"modified":"2011-02-14T20:15:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:15:34","slug":"mechanicsburg-pa-summer-of-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/2010\/08\/29\/mechanicsburg-pa-summer-of-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanicsburg, PA &#8211; Summer of 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9260\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28\" title=\"Mechanicsburg, PA\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/08\/HD_MechanicsburgPA-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/08\/HD_MechanicsburgPA-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/08\/HD_MechanicsburgPA.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Ward - Mechanicsburg, PA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Norman D. Keefer, <em> <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Keefer1963.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanicsburg: Civil War Centennial<\/a><\/em> (Mechanicsburg, PA: Mechanicsburg Area Chamber of Commerce, 1963).<\/p>\n<p>Norman D. Keefer\u2019s essay provides a detailed overview of what happened in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area during the Confederate invasion in June 1863. While this essay\u2019s title includes \u201cCentennial,\u201d the focus throughout the article remains on what happened in 1863 rather than how  Mechanicsburg commemorated the war in 1963. After Confederate troops captured Mechanicsburg on June 28, 1863, Brigadier General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5976\" target=\"_blank\">Albert G. Jenkins<\/a> established his headquarters in the town. Two days later his troops left the town and marched towards Gettysburg.  Some historians argue that Mechanicsburg was \u201cthe northern-most town to have been captured\u2026during the Civil War,\u201d as Keefer explains.<\/p>\n<p><em>This essay has been posted online with permission from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County Historical Society<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman D. Keefer, Mechanicsburg: Civil War Centennial (Mechanicsburg, PA: Mechanicsburg Area Chamber of Commerce, 1963). Norman D. Keefer\u2019s essay provides a detailed overview of what happened in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area during the Confederate invasion in June 1863. While this essay\u2019s title includes \u201cCentennial,\u201d the focus throughout the article remains on what happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","tag-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}