Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

==== First two Confederate occupations, selective burnings ====
{{Main|Chambersburg Raid}}
During the [[American Civil War]] on October 10, 1862, [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] [[Major General|Maj. Gen.]] [[J.E.B. Stuart]], with 1,800 cavalrymen, [[Chambersburg Raid|raided Chambersburg]], destroying $250,000 of railroad property and taking 500 guns, hundreds of horses, and enslaving "eight young colored men and boys."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-841|title =Map of Stuart's Raid|publisher=ExplorePaHistory.com|  access-date = October 12, 2012 }}</ref> They failed, however, to accomplish one of the main targets of the raid: to burn the railroad bridge across the Conococheague Creek at Scotland, five miles (8&nbsp;km) north of town.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-5A|title =Stuart's Raid|publisher=ExplorePaHistory.com|  access-date = October 12, 2012 }}</ref>

During the early days of the 1863 [[Gettysburg Campaign]], a [[Virginia]] cavalry [[brigade]] under [[Brigadier General|Brig. Gen.]] [[Albert G. Jenkins]] occupied the town and burned several warehouses and [[Cumberland Valley Railroad]] structures and the bridge at Scotland. From June 24–28, 1863, much of the [[Army of Northern Virginia]] passed through Chambersburg<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.civilwarhome.com/gettyscampaign.htm|title =The Gettysburg Campaign |publisher=civilwarhome.com|  access-date = 2007-09-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/education/es5/es5.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818232134/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/education/es5/es5.pdf| url-status=dead| archive-date=August 18, 2000|title =Geology and the Gettysburg Campaign|publisher=Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources|  year = 1962|  access-date = 2007-09-21 }}</ref> en route to [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania|Carlisle]] and [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania|Gettysburg]], and General [[Robert E. Lee]] established his headquarters at a nearby farm.