counter, not thinking them worth hiding, and putting them under his arm walked out and down past Jenkins' headquarters. The General came quickly out and caught the fellow by the back of the neck and ran him back into the store on the double-quick, saying to us as he rushed him up to the counter, "Did this man get these here? and did he pay for them?" Upon being told that he had taken them and had not paid for them, the General drew his sword, and flourishing it above the man's head and swearing terribly, said, "I've a mind to cut your head off.” Then turning to us he said, "Sell my men all the goods they want; but if any one attempts to take anything without paying for it, report to me at my head - quarters. We are not thieves." Some of the officers visited the drug stores of the town and made liberal purchases, telling the proprietors to make out their bills, or if they had not time to do so to guess at the amount and it would be paid.

About nine o'clock, while we were doing a lively business, a soldier came riding at great speed from where the main body were stationed out on the Harrisburg pike, and reported to Jenkins that the Yankees were coming. The general came out in great haste, and mounting his horse, and in a voice of great power, ordered the men to the front. A rush was made out the Harrisburg pike, and soon the town was free from the enemy, when we at once closed our places of business. In the course of an hour a number of men returned leading the horses, and went on down the road leading to Greencastle to the outskirts of the town and there waited. Jenkins had dismounted his men and was prepared to fight the expected Yankees as infantry. They were armed with Enfield rifles as well as sabres. In the course of about an hour afterward, these dismounted

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men fell back and marched through the town and out to where their horses were, and, after remounting, continued to fall back to the vicinity of Greencastle. The news of the occupation of our town by the Confederates was known. all over the country, and great numbers of people, as well as some Federal scouts, moved by curiosity, or a desire to ascertain precisely where the enemy were, had come within sight of the men in line of battle on Shirk's Hill. Seeing these, and hearing of the gathering of troops at Harrisburg, and that a large body was advancing, they were alarmed, and, supposing themselves to be in danger of being attacked in overwhelming numbers, or flanked and cut off, they fell back within supporting distance of the Confederate infantry at Williamsport. As Jenkins and his staff rode up street after the dismounted men had all passed nearly out of sight, a number of our citizens were standing upon the pavement in front of the court-house. Supposing that they might be armed and intended to fire upon them, the general and his staff drew their pistols and rode toward the citizens. A stampede, of course, ensued. As the last of the soldiers was leaving the northern end of the town, they set fire to a large frame warehouse then belonging to Messrs. Oaks & Linn, but it was speedily extinguished by the citizens in that vicinity. The firing of that warehouse, and the destruction of the Scotland railroad bridge, were the only acts of real destruction attempted. True, many horses, cattle, and other things. were taken, but all was within the rules of war, except the carrying away of free negroes.

After Jenkins withdrew his force to the vicinity of Greencastle, he sent out foraging parties in all directions

in search of additional plunder. One detachment eff si sisting of about two hundred and fifty men under the coinmand of Colonel Ferguson crossed the Cove Mountain by way of Mercersburg, reaching McConnellsburg, the county seat of Fulton County, shortly after daylight on Thursday. This was the first appearance of the Confederates in that place and the inhabitants were terribly alarmed as they arose from their beds to find the town in possession of the dreaded enemy. A vigorous search was at once instituted for horses, of which a large number was taken. The stores and shops were also visited, and although the alarm had extended there and stocks were nearly all removed or concealed, a considerable amount of valuable articles was taken. In some cases these were paid for in Confederate scrip. The streets, after their departure, were lined with old shoes, boots, and hats which had been thrown aside for better ones. About one mile north of the town a drove of fat cattle, valued at about six thousand dollars, belonging to Ex-Sheriff J. W. Taylor of this pce, was grazing. These were taken, and together with t horses which had been captured, were driven with

m and handed over to Rodes' infantry at Williamsport. O the following Sunday this same body of the enemy p ndered the stores and shops of Greencastle. Had it nc; been that the business men there as elsewhere had removed their stocks, the losses would have been much greater. Another detachment was sent east, and after plundering the rich country about Waynesborough, crossed the south-eastern flank of the South Mountain, where, at the Monterey Pass, on Sunday, the 21st, the Philadelphia City troop and Bell's cavalry of Gettysburg, encoun

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tere their pickets. In ne evening of the same day about one hundred and twenty of them entered Fairfield, and returned again by the Furnace road, taking with them all the good horses they could find.

From the time that these cavalrymen fell back from this place to below Greencastle-Wednesday, the 17th—until Monday morning, the 22d, the whole southern portion of Franklin county was plundered by these men, and the captures made were transferred to Rodes' division at Williamsport. It would be difficult to estimate the value of the property taken by this raid, but it certainly amounted to not less than one hundred thousand dollars. Then its coming in the season of the year when the farming interests required the use of the horses, and followed a few days afterward by Lee's vast army, which added vastly to the amount taken, increased immensely its inconvenience and loss. Many croppers who had little else than their stock, were bankrupted. The effect of this raid, however, was to arouse the people of Pennsylvania and the whole North, and volunteers for the defense of the border hairried to Harrisburg. 24

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By Monday morning, the 22d, the various detachmi of Jenkins' command had all rejoined the main body etween Greencastle and Hagerstown, where, on that oy, they were joined by Rodes' division of infantry, when he real invasion of the State was begun.

CHAPTER IV.

THE INVASION.

URING the week while Jenkins was raiding the southern border of Pennsylvania, the corps of Hill and Longstreet were on the march to the Potomac, while the Federal army was moving parallel to them on the east of the Blue Ridge. Resuming our narrative of the daily movements of these two armies where we left off in a previous chapter to detail the disastrous affair at Winchester, and the raid of Jenkins, we commence with:

Monday, June 15. The head-quarters of the Army of the Potomac were this day moved from Dumfries to Fairfax Station; the Second Corps moved from Falmouth to near Aquia; the Fifth Corps from Catlett's Station via Bristoe Station to Manassas Junction; the Sixth Corps from Aquia Creek and Stafford Court-House to Dumfries; the Twelfth Corps from Dumfries to Fairfax CourtHouse; the Cavalry Corps guarding the left flank of the army left Warrentown Junction and moved to Union Mills and Bristoe Station; the Artillery Reserve moved from Wolf Run Shoals to Fairfax Court - House; and the Eleventh Corps, after marching all the previous night arrived at Centreville.

Tuesday, 16. This day the Second Corps marched from near Aquia via Dumfries to Wolf Run Shoals, on the