The writer of that letter witnessed the initial raid on Chambersburg by Albert Jenkins and then moved on to obtain hoped-for saftey at Shippensburg. The store owner mention in that letter was druggist Jacob Nixon who owned a pharmacy in Chambersburg. According to local resident Jemima Cree, the cavalrymen from Jenkins Brigade stripped the drugstores in Chambersburg virtually clean of medical supplies during their first raid on the town late on June 15 through June 18. "They took from Jacob Nixon six very large boxes full, valued at about six or eight hundred dollars, about the same from Heyser, and a good many from Spangler and Miller," she remarked to her husband. Cree continued watching as the troopers "placed an armed guard at the doors until they were boxed up and then brought the wagons round and loaded them."