Charles Cyphers and the 8th Pennsylvania Infantry were finally on the march. By mid-June 1861, they had left Camp Slifer outside Chambersburg behind and were pushing south as part of General Robert Patterson’s Army of the Shenandoah, with the Maryland line just ahead and a large force assembling around them. US soldiers marching through Chambersburg, PA in 1861 – Harper’s Weekly Writing his fifth letter to the Pittston Gazette from Greencastle –…
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