How do unarmed men pillage and plunder. Every cracker Pennsiyltuckian had a shotgun and a rifle.
When some semblance of order was restored, the Texas Brigade straggled across the narrow neck of Maryland to the vicinity of Greencastle, Pennsylvania. That day, June 26, 1863, Hood's men performed a feat never again matched by any division in the war. They had breakfast in Virginia, lunch in Maryland, supper in Pennsylvania, and slept in a state of intoxication -- four states in 24 hours. That evening the Hood's Division went into camp near Greencastle. Hood himself precipitated some of the most intense foraging yet done by the Texas Brigade when he reportedly said to his headquarter's guard, ``Boys, you are now on the enemy's soil; stack your arms and pretty much do as you please...stay close by and prevent any stranger from coming here to kill me, and establish your camp here by my tent.''
There’s no record I’ve seen of any PA crackers shooting at Confederates who came to pillage their farms.
All the records we have say foraging Southern troops found whatever they wanted, and we’re most pleased with the prices they paid — zero.