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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.21 (search)
Unwritten history.
[from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, February 5, 1899.1
A Southern account of the burning of Chambersburg.
Northern stories Contradicted—a Virginia cavalryman tells the tale of the memorable Raid—it was bad enough, but not as bad as Pictured.
The burning of Chambersburg, Pa., July 30, 1864, by General John McCausland's Confederate cavalry was a unique incident of the civil war, as it was the first time the Confederates had applied the torch in retaliation for similar offences committed by the Federal army.
It created consternation and indignation throughout the entire North.
They had forgotten that Colonel Montgomery, of the Federal army, committed such gross outrages on private citizens in South Carolina, on raids made into the State—acts so atrocious and unwarranted that he was summarily dismissed from the army; Kilpatrick and Sheridan were barn-burners and mill-burners by instinct, or orders; Jackson, Miss., was partially destroyed; one-third <