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To: central_va; BroJoeK
Lemme flesh it out a bit:

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.''

1,072 posted on 11/05/2015 8:30:48 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: HandyDandy
``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.''

As far as I can tell from reading first hand accounts, Rebs were not allowed, by standing order, to take arms into any towns in PA the camped near. Unarmed men usually do not "pillage".

1,075 posted on 11/06/2015 10:28:12 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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