After forty miles in the saddle, 3,500 weary Confederate cavalry reached Carlisle in the evening.  General Stuart hoped for rest, food, and remounts but instead found a Union garrison under General W.F. Smith.  When Smith rejected Stuart's demand for surrender and cut down trees on East High Street as barricades, Stuart had Captain James Breathed's guns fire 134 shells into the town before marching away after midnight.  (By John Osborne)  

Confederate troops under Brig. Gen. John McCausland paid their third visit of the war to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and demanded a ransom of $100,000 in gold or $500,000. Both unwilling and unable to pay, the residents saw their town set afire on orders from General Jubal Early. More than 250 houses and public buildings were destroyed at a cost estimated up to two million dollars and 3000 people were reported homeless. The burning was justified as retaliation for similar Union actions in Virginia but Early was sought after the conflict as a war criminal. (By John Osborne)    

Union commanders saw immediately the value of the 5,620 foot bridge over the Susquehanna at Wrightsville and had made plans quickly to defend it or destroy it to impede the Confederate advance.  General John Brown Gordon was detailed to take the bridge, marching from York twelve miles away but Union Colonel Jacob B. Frick and a hastily assembled force from Columbia, across the river, were able to destroy it by fire.  (By John Osborne)