Tiger John The Rebel Who Burned Chambersburg

He had many similarities in common with "Stonewall" Jackson: orphaned while young, he grew to manhood among the proud people of western Virginia, had a military education at the Virginia Military Institute, and young McCausland was a teaching assistant at VMI in both mathematics and artillery tactics under Jackson's supervision.  Both were with the Cadet contingent serving as guards at John Brown's execution.

He is remembered for the Rebel raid into Pennsylvania in which the town of Chambersburg was burned in retribution for Federal atrocities in the Shenandoah Valley.  After this raid, a reward was placed on his head and he had to leave the country at the end of the war until a full pardon was granted.  Bitter to the last of his days, he was described as "The Last Confederate Stronghold" until his death in 1927, the next to last surviving Confederate general officer.