Chambersburg, Pa., felt the hard hand of war when a Confederate raiding party put the town to the torch in the summer of 1864. The citizens of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, upon hearing the court house bell tolling on July 30, 1864, knew that something out of the ordinary was happening in Franklin County. Confederate cavalrymen and …
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