[Vigilanteman]

They spend close to a month in Pennsylvania prior to Gettysburg. They selectively destroyed specific military targets (steel mills owned by radical Republican Senator Thaddeus Stevens), not everything in their path.

History records that the townspeople and farmers were generally astonished by the civil behavior of Lee's army which traded or paid fair prices for everything they got. There was one case of an army unit swarming a hat shop in McConnellsburg, taking hats and leaving beat up headgear in exchange. Their CO ordered the men to either return the hats they took or pay for them. They did.

[BroJoeK]

Vigilanteman: "They spend close to a month in Pennsylvania prior to Gettysburg.
They selectively destroyed specific military targets (steel mills owned by radical Republican Senator Thaddeus Stevens), not everything in their path."

Thaddeus Stevens was a US Congressman, not Senator.
There is no record of Confederate troops destroying Union steel mills, whether they belonged to Stevens or anybody else.

Confederate troops did invade and destroy or seize property in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania three different times -- in October 1862, June-July 1863 and July-August 1864 (none of those raids lasted longer than a few days):

• The October 1862 raid by JEB Stuart destroyed $250,000 of railroad property, took 500 guns, hundreds of horses, and at least "eight young colored men and boys"

• During the Gettysburg campaign of June-July 1863, Confederate General Albert Jenkins burned several warehouses and railroad structures in Chambersburg, then destroyed an important railroad bridge in nearby Scotland.

• Finally in July-August 1864 Confederate General Jubal Early burned down most of Chambersburg after it refused to provide him with the $500,000 he demanded.

Indeed, "Remember Chambersburg" became a battle-cry of Union troops under General Sherman in Georgia.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

They spend close to a month in Pennsylvania prior to Gettysburg. They selectively destroyed specific military targets (steel mills owned by radical Republican Senator Thaddeus Stevens), not everything in their path. History records that the townspeople and farmers were generally astonished by the civil behavior of Lee's army which traded or paid fair prices for everything they got. There was one case of an army unit swarming a hat shop in McConnellsburg, taking hats and leaving beat up headgear in exchange. Their CO ordered the men to either return the hats they took or pay for them. They did.

Unfortunately paid in worthless Confederate money, but a deal the shop owners couldn't refuse.