Four Confederate soldiers watching the Franklin County Courthouse in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, burn, three of which are on horseback. Torch on left and right of outer ring.
Obverse lettering
BURNING OF CHAMBERSBURG
JULY 30, 1864
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Reverse lettering
CIVIL WAR CENTENNIAL 1864 - 1964
THE ONLY
NORTHERN TOWN BURNED BY
CONFEDERATE TROOPS DURING
THE CIVIL WAR
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DESTROYED: 537 BUILDINGS,
WITH LOSSES TOTALING
$1,628,431.58
