Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series! Our next lecture will be: The Confederate Approach on Harrisburg: The Gettysburg Campaign's Northernmost Reaches by Cooper Wingert. Cost is $5 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.

Talk Synopsis:

In June 1863, Harrisburg braced for an invasion as the Confederate troops of Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell steadily moved toward the Pennsylvania capital. Capturing Carlisle en route, Ewell sent forth a brigade of cavalry under Brigadier General Albert Gallatin Jenkins. After occupying Mechanicsburg for two days, Jenkins's troops skirmished with Union militia near Harrisburg. Jenkins then reported back to Ewell that Harrisburg was vulnerable. Ewell, however, received orders from army commander Lee to concentrate southward--toward Gettysburg--immediately. Left in front of Harrisburg, Jenkins had to fight his way out at the Battle of Sporting Hill. The following day, Jeb Stuart's Confederate cavalry made…