2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
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War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter by John Towle, 116th Pennsylvania Vols, October 17, 1862, and reads in part: "...I would have written sooner but we have been on a pleasure excursion up the valley into Pennsylvania after Stuart's Cavalry since last Friday. I call it a pleasure excursion because we had everything we wished for on the way. When we came to Hanover, Pa. the ladies had baskets of pies and cakes, bread, applebutter, and hot coffee to any extent. We went as far as Gettysburg on the cars...then took the road and marched three miles into the country, where we expected to meet the Rebels, but they had skedaddled through Maryland. They took everything they got their hands on they took over 1000 horses from Adams County, Pa. and 6 or 7 of the home guards prisoners. They was about 6000 strong and all on horses. They did not stop long in a place, they would run horses until they dropped own, then take another. We took three of them prisoners, they had got astray, but we put them on the right track...." Fine condition. The Raid on Chambersburg, often identified as J.E.B. Stuart's Chambersburg Raid, was a Confederate States Army cavalry raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania on October 10-12, 1862 during the Civil War. It became known as Stuart's "second ride around McClellan" because it duplicated Stuart's reconnaissance ride completely around the Union Army of the Potomac under Major General George B. McClellan during the ill-fated Peninsula Campaign.
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