The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
by B. S. Schneck
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About this eBook
- Author
- Schneck, B. S. (Benjamin Shroder), 1806-1874
- Credits
- E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/americana)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F106: United States local history: Atlantic coast. Middle Atlantic States
- Subject
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Destruction and pillage
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32268
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32268
- Release Date
- May 6, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( http://www.archive.org/details/americana )
- 2.THE BURNING OF CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.NOTICE.
- 5.BY REV. B. S. SCHNECK, D. D. — OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. — THE BURNING OF CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. — BY
- 6.REV. B. SCHNECK., D. D., — AN EYE-WITNESS AND A SUFFERER. — WITH CORROBORATIVE STATEMENTS FROM THE REV. J. CLARK, HON. A. K. McCLURE, J. HOKE, ESQ., REV. T. G. APPLE, REV. B. BAUSMAN, REV. S. J. NICCOLLS, AND J. K. SHRYOCK, ESQ. — IN LETTERS TO A FRIEND. — SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED, WITH A PLAN OF THE BURNT PORTION OF THE TOWN.
- 7.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- 8.THE BURNING OF CHAMBERSBURG. — LETTER I. — The Military Situation on the Border. — LETTER II. — The Rebels Enter Chambersburg — Plundering Promptly Commenced. — Tribute Demanded. — Burning of Chambersburg. — Incidents of the Burning. — Humane Rebel Officers. — The Order to Burn Chambersburg. — Retribution. — LETTER III. — A Vindication of the Border. — LETTER IV. — LETTER V. — Incidents. — LETTER VI. — BUILDINGS BURNED.
- 9.WOODCLIFF. — BY MISS HARRIET B. McKEEVER, — AUTHOR OF “EDITH’S MINISTRY,” “SUNSHINE,” “THE FLOUNCED ROBE,” ETC., ETC. — IN ONE VOLUME, 12mo., PRICE $2.00. — ALSO, JUST READY,
- 10.THE REV. SAMUEL A. PHILIPS’ NEW BOOK, — THE VOICE OF BLOOD, IN THE SPHERE OF NATURE AND OF THE SPIRIT WORLD. — BY THE — REV. SAMUEL A. PHILIPS, A. M.,
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