Shown below are markers and sites that were not shown in the Burning of Chambersburg posts.

The tablet at the house is unreadable. It can be seen at the link at the HMDB. It states “Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart, during the first Chambersburg Raid (October 1862), stopped in Mercersburg at Bridgeside, the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Steiger. He intended to use the house as his headquarters while his troops rounded up supplies and civilian hostages from the town. However, Mrs. Steiger informed Stuart that her husband was away on business and that her children had measles. She suggested it might not be safe to enter her home. Stuart complied and settled for having lunch on a side porch. Ironically, as the rebels moved out of town towards Chambersburg later in the day, they encountered a livestock dealer and seized his horses and wagon and took him hostage. The rebels did not know he was George Steiger. That evening, when they allowed him to seek forage for his horses, Steiger managed to escape from his captors by hiding in a cornfield. Traveling by a circuitous route to avoid recapture, Steiger returned to Bridgeside around 1 a.m. to find a large group of neighbors gathered to console his wife and children. All were amazed when a tired and wet George Steiger walked in the back door.”

The above marker reads “On October 10, 1862, Confederate cavalry commanded by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart briefly occupied Mercersburg on their way to raid Chambersburg. Acting under orders from Gen. Lee, Stuart took ten men from the Mercersburg area hostage. Cornellus Louderbaugh and John McDowell were released later because of their age; D.O. Blair and William Raby escaped; George G. Rupley, James Grove, Joseph W. Winger, William Conner and Daniel Shaffer were taken to Richmond’s Libby Prison and paroled some months later; Perry A. Rice died in Libby Prison. During the Gettysburg Campaign in 1863 the Confederates also took John Filkil, Findley Cuff, Samuel Brooks, Amos Barnes and other African Americans to Richmond and kept them from their families for months.”

During the Civil War the basement of the Church was converted into a hospital, providing care for soldiers from both sides. Men on their way to Harper’s Ferry during John Brown’s raid may have encamped overnight in the basement.

Wounded Civil War soldiers were cared for in the Sunday School area of the church.

Marshall College now Mercersburg Academy

The pictures below were taken at Mercersburg Academy. Old Main Hall, South Cottage and North Cottage were used as makeshift hospitals during the Civil War.

South Cottage- 30 Rutledge Road

The Irvine Memorial Chapel- 39.8251636, -77.8998279. The Chapel was constructed after the Civil War in the 1920s but it was so impressive, I included a picture of it.

Fairview Cemetery- 39.8207225, -77.8979799. There are three Confederate graves together. The soldiers were John W. Alban, Mirabo B. Locklin and W.H. Quaintance. John W. Alban was killed during the ambush described in the tablet “Ambush at Mercersburg!” and died July 3, 1863. He was a member of Captain Shira’s Company in the 12th VA Cavalry. Mirabo B. L. Locklin from Company K of the 3rd GA Infantry was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, taken prisoner and died in Mercersburg on July 9, 1963. W.H. Quaintance is actually Jospeh W. Quaintance. He was wounded on June 30th shortly before the Battle of Gettysburg. Shot in the chest he was taken to the First Methodist Episcopal Church. The Leonard Leidy family took him into their home until he died on August 28, 1863, the day before his 23rd birthday. He was born in Rappahannock County Virginia.

Zion Union Cemetery- 39.8213588, -77.9050877 U.S. Colored Troops buried in the cemetery that were not members of the 54th MA Regiment that were included in the post “The 54th Massachusetts and Pennsylvania”.