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On October 6, the same day Halleck ordered McClellan to move, Lee asked Major General J.E.B. Stuart, to make a raid toward Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. [26] Lee wanted Stuart to destroy the important railroad bridge over the Conococheague Creek, bring back horses and capture government officials who might be exchanged for captured Confederate leaders or sympathizers.
The Chambersburg, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area includes surrounding Franklin County, and in 2010 included 149,618 people. [6] According to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Chambersburg Borough is the thirteenth-largest municipality in Pennsylvania and the largest borough as measured by fiscal size as of 2016.
Snider had a great interest in public education and served on Chambersburg's school board for 29 years beginning in 1863. He served as the secretary for 13 years and also as a director for 15 years.
On May 20 it was ordered to Suffolk Park; on the 28th to Chambersburg, where it became part of Patterson's army. It crossed the Potomac on June 17, but the force soon returned to the Maryland side and encamped. On July 2 the army moved to Martinsburg and thence after a fortnight, to Bunker Hill, Charlestown, and Harper's Ferry.
From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Monument along Chambersburg Pike at Gettysburg The 149th Pennsylvania Infantry, also known as the 2nd Bucktail Regiment , volunteered during the American Civil War and served a 3-year term from August 1862 to June 1865.
The Battle of Folck's Mill, also known as the Battle of Cumberland, was a small cavalry engagement, fought August 1, 1864, in northern Maryland, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War. After burning Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on July 30, cavalry under Confederate generals John McCausland and Bradley T. Johnson ...
Chambersburg, Pa., October 11; Duty at Maryland Heights until December; March to Fredericksburg, Va., December 10–16; Fairfax Station December 12; At Stafford Court House until April 1863; 1863 "Mud March" January 20–24; Chancellorsville Campaign April 27 – May 6; Battle of Chancellorsville May 1–5; Gettysburg Campaign June 11 – July 24
During the American Civil War the line had strategic importance in supplying Union troops in the Shenandoah Valley. It also ran the first passenger sleeping car in the U.S. on the Chambersburg-Harrisburg route in 1839. [4] [5] The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) gained control of the CVRR as early as 1859, and officially purchased it on June 2, 1919.