... Chambersburg as McCausland left it. As a reprisal for Hunter's raid in the Shenandoah Valley, the Confederate General McCausland burned the town of Chambersburg, in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania . One high-minded and courageous officer in McCausland's command--Colonel William E. Peters, of Virginia--refused to obey the order to apply the torch. A year before, on the march to Gettysburg, Gen...