they were going to go into chambersburg. we're going to burn it. and as torches were basically being passed around, he recorded his diary, how he thought was wrong, that we should not be doing this because he's thinking about what he has written in his diary previously. how he was condemning the acts of. individuals like union general david hunter in the valley and he thought, well, now we're doing the same kind of thing. but very quickly he begins to about this. he begins to rationalize in own mind and he begins to rationalize it in the context of the destruction that did occur. thought, well this is this is a this is a fair retaliation. this is a fair revenge for what happens to communities in the shenandoah valley. but what's interesting about bennett is, in some weird way, he believed that the destruction confederates soldiers engaged in was more humane and civil. and he wrote in part that burning, per se is wrong. no man can deny, but there may be circumstance under which it is not only justifiable but becomes duty instead of snatching from th