The first 5 minutes helped me resolve Ben Chambers confusion with Ben Chambers from MD and Cresaps war. Thank you

This is great, many thanks.

I'm planning to spend a few days in Gettysburg this year and now would like to add Chambersburg to my list of places to explore while I'm in the area. This presentation, like all the others, was excellent! Thankyou for all that you do!

Crazy. I've been to Gettysburg a bazzilion times and was married near there and my wedding reception was at the Cashtown Inn and I still had no idea Chambersburg was burnt to the ground until I watched this. I always come in from the west from Westmoreland County. Next time I'll be sure to stop in the town and take a look around. I have been edified.

Thank you for the history!

Thank for this engaging presentation. You’ve helped to enhance my sense of time and place for this critical era. I was always disturbed by John Browns

@willoutlaw4971

2 жыл бұрын

John Brown is an American saint and hero.

ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY .......you gotta love it From ANOTHER NATIVE of ChambersburgPA.....1954 model

Continued from previous, below, finger slip. Thank you for making this critical era clearer and more personal. Knowing John Browns history I always considered his decision completely flawed and wondered what counterproductive actions and the recent Nat Turner revolt made supporting secession more acceptable.Now learning that Frederick Douglas was aware of this I must wonder if reporting this to authorities might have been a far better choice for him. Thank you again for your fine and fascinating presentation

I lived in one of the few structures that did not burn...337 E. Queen Street ...sixth grade till graduation..they tried to burn it..burn marks on the stone walls of the foundation...it's the big brick front house with concrete sides on edge of the alley between third and RR high line bridge

Tracy - I greatly enjoyed your presentation. I had relatives who were in the 17th Virginia Cavalry, who were at Chambersburg. My book, "Campaigning with the 17th Virginia Cavalry" covers their part in the attack on Chambersburg. Thank you again for such an interesting topic!

@brianh1161

2 жыл бұрын

Where can this book be obtained?

@JenHistoryFuzzAdmin

3 ай бұрын

Wasn’t the 34th of Virginia also involved in this? I had two great grandparents who were involved.

Grant orders Hunter to the Shenandoah May 1864 Chambersburg burned in response July 1864

@fateagle4life

3 жыл бұрын

Seems like Hunter owns this burning on his shoulders. If he wouldn't have tried to be a poor man's Sherman in the valley, Cashtown would probably have not been burned. Sad that some Generals let the war get to these levels when civilians were paying a price even higher that attrition from war.

@kenabbott8585

2 жыл бұрын

@@fateagle4life Hunter burned several towns and homes all over the area. Early burned one town--and was fired for it. Guess which one we hear about constantly.

@carywest9256

11 ай бұрын

@@kenabbott8585 l don't have to guess who was fired and villainized. The woke society are such a group that grope around in the dark it's pathetic! DEO VINDICE

@JenHistoryFuzzAdmin

3 ай бұрын

It was an act of revenge… the men had come through Chambersburg and needed to buy supplies and nobody would sell them anything. They told the town that they needed items and would pay for them and if they didn’t sell to them they’d burn it… they were told several times and they denied service to the men. So, they burned it… they made sure nobody was inside the buildings.. and they didn’t burn elderly people’s homes or churches. They needed help… willing to pay for supplies, and desperate times calls for desperate measures! It could’ve been avoided, but men were already upset about the raids, burning farms, and raped women… being put out into the snow and their homes being burned… with children. Not all confederates supported slavery. They were fighting for their land and families. The war for the poor men was entirely about their land… their HOME. After seeing all the atrocities, they fought against that. That’s why my great grandfathers fought for the South… it was to protect the people from raids etc. When the Union started doing that, they turned many men against them. The 34th of Virginia were tough poor men from Southern West Virginia… no slave owners… many who had been sharecroppers. Very poor men who had to protect their people from the crimes of war that came to their doorstep. 😢 People need to understand that part of history too.