The Burning Of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Before Gettysburg became a symbol of sacrifice, another Pennsylvania town was reduced to ashes. One town vanished in hours. In The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, B. S. Schneck offers a sober, immediate eyewitness civil war account of the Confederate incursion that wiped a community from the map during the american civil war 1864. Written as 19th century historical nonfiction by a local clergyman and resident, it captures the terror, confusion and resilience surrounding one of the mo...