Confederate soldiers help save Pennsylvania City & “Treat them much better than their own [Yankee] men”
This is the extraordinary story of southern American/Confederate soldiers trying to save homes and stores in a northern town in Pennsylvania after Yankees burned a nearby bridge. Confederates had entered Pennyslvania primarily to pressure politicians in Washington DC to end the war. These stories are an interesting stark contrast to the many stories of Yankees burning southern towns during their conquest (list found below). Unlike Yankee orders, Confederates were operating under an order from Lee not to destroy private property. This historical marker in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania explains how the town caught fire after northern Yankees burned the bridge. After Gordon's Confederates failed to save the bridge, they went to work trying to save the town. Read the marker for an interesting story of how one of the women responded. Just up this street are the guns with the marker: "these guns presented by US Government mark Wrightsville as the farthest point east reached...