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There isn’t much food left in town

While Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade camped east of Chambersburg, waiting, as they thought, to press on to Baltimore, Md., or the Pennsylvania capital of Harrisburg, folks in Mercersburg, west of the brigade’s line of march north from Hagerstown, Md., were learning … Continue reading

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