Annie (Mumper) Clark told the following story to James T. Logan in 1930 at the age of 75….

Annie begins by recalling the arrival of “skedaddlers,” men intent on saving their property – primarily their horses – who were fleeing east ahead of the Confederate forces driving up the Cumberland Valley.

She recalled that William Caldwell, the 12-year-old son of one of the men, had bene injured when kicked by a horse and that her family agreed to keep young William until things quieted down and his father could return and take his injured son home to Shippensburg.

After the skedaddlers left, the Rebs arrived – apparently on June 30 – and demanded “good eggs, ham and coffee…and no substitute” then took off after the skedaddlers and their valuable horses.

The next day was Wednesday, July 1, and more Confederates showed up – the calvary led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. Annie says Stuart “and his brother, Dr. Stuart” were among those who again enjoyed eggs and ham at her home, along with champagne they apparently found along their foraging excursion, which had begun that morning in Dover.

The doctor dressed the wounds of young Willie and Gen. Stuart agreed to issue him a pass so he could go home through the Confederate lines when he felt good enough to travel.

During the dinner, one of the officers said he had enjoyed Mrs. Mumper’s homemade bread before. When, dressed as a woman who old pins and needles, he had conducted a spying mission through Dillsburg. Annie recalled that her father had suspected at the time that a visitor to the home was not really a woman.

On the who, though, Annie said she thought the Rebels “were the most gentlemanly men we ever saw.”

Annie added that two sick Union soldiers, part of an advance party, were hidden in the garret and covered with a feather bed when the Rebs arrived and they went undiscovered.

After dinner the Rebels moved on to Carlisle, where historians say there were notified the next day to get down to Gettysburg.

Annie said she could hear cannons firing during the Battle of Gettysburg, more than 20 miles away.

The original Maple Shade Barn burned down in early 1900 and was rebuilt by Annie’s second husband, George Koch (or Hoch) using a standing stone wall from the original barn. It is built in the traditional