After Lee's army had withdrawn back to Virginia, Stuart performed another of his audacious circumnavigations of the Army of the Potomac — 120 miles in under 60 hours, from Leesburg, Virginia, to as far north as Chambersburg and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania — once again embarrassing his Union opponents and seizing horses and supplies, but at the expense of exhausted men and animals, without gaining much military advantage.

Mercersburg is located at ( 39. 829388 ,-77. 901952 ).

Mercersburg is located at the foot of the Appalachian mountains just north of the Mason-Dixon Line, which serves as the state border with Maryland.

* Harriet Lane ( 1830-1903 ), niece of James Buchanan, was born at Mercersburg in the Lane House.

Schaff's broad views strongly influenced the German Reformed Church, through his teaching at Mercersburg, through his championship of English in German Reformed churches and schools in America, through his hymnal ( 1859 ), through his labours as chairman of the committee which prepared a new liturgy, and by his edition ( 1863 ) of the Heidelberg Catechism.

In consequence of the ravages of the American Civil War the theological seminary at Mercersburg was closed for a while and so in 1863 Dr. Schaff became secretary of the Sabbath Committee ( which opposed the “ continental Sunday ”) in New York City, and held the position till 1870.

In January 1921, Kelly returned to the US where he took a job as a teacher at Mercersburg Academy.

Lavender attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, and later studied the law and liberal arts at Princeton University.

Ted Meredith made the 1912 Olympic team while still in high school at Mercersburg Academy.

Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Carr studied at Mercersburg Academy and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was coached by 1904 Olympian Lawson Robertson.

" These founders were hoping to establish an alternative to the seminary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, a school they believed was increasingly heretical to traditional Reformed faith.

In 1915, Applegarth turned professional and emigrated to America, where became track and soccer coach at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania.

Although the seminary existed prior to 1844, Mercersburg Theology began in earnest in that year with the hiring of Philip Schaff to join John Williamson Nevin on staff at the seminary.

Mr. Farley began to write The Black Stallion while he was a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School and Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania.

Payne attended prep school at Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania and then went to Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

But under the influence of Neander he was gradually breaking away from " Puritanic Presbyterianism ," and in 1840, having resigned his chair in Allegheny, he was appointed professor of theology in the ( German Reformed ) Theological Seminary at Mercersburg, Pa., and thus passed from the Presbyterian Church into the German Reformed.

In 1851 he resigned from the Mercersburg Seminary in order that its running expenses might be lightened ; and from 1841 to 1853 he was president of Marshall College at Mercersburg.

Many Presbyterian Churches, influenced by Philip Schaff's Mercersburg Theology, have adopted a High Church liturgy.

Newtown was first settled in 1792 under the name of Mercersburg.

They founded the New Jerusalem settlement between Greencastle and Mercersburg, published the Conochoheague Herald newspaper in Greencastle, and made plans for the construction of a temple.

Mercersburg is a borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, southwest of Harrisburg.

The Mercersburg Historic District, Lane House, and Mercersburg Academy are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Pennsylvania state highways 16, 75 and 416 all pass through Mercersburg, which is approximately west of Interstate 81.

The District is located within the borders of Franklin County in south-central Pennsylvania and includes the Borough of Mercersburg and Montgomery, Peters, St. Thomas and Warren townships.

Mercersburg Academy has a rich athletic tradition that has produced 48 olympians, 9 of whom won gold medals.

In the 1980s, Mercersburg had a dominant swimming program, with two of its students, Betsy Mitchell and Melvin Stewart, winning olympic medals.

In this period, coach John Trembley led Mercersburg seven times to the National Prep School Championship, and six times to the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championship.

More recently, Mercersburg has become known and respected for its Men's Cross Country team.

Marshall College was a college founded in Mercersburg in 1836.

It later merged with Franklin College, in Lancaster County, and produced the so-called Mercersburg Theology.

* James Buchanan, the only Pennsylvanian to be elected President of the United States, was born in a log cabin in the village of Cove Gap near Mercersburg and grew up in the town.

His log cabin still stands today on the Mercersburg Academy Campus near the athletics building.

* Academy Award – winning actors Jimmy Stewart and Benicio del Toro both attended Mercersburg Academy, as well as John Hamilton, who played Perry White on Adventures of Superman TV series.

* Mercersburg Academy is a boarding school in Mercersburg, PA.

Three places are paid for eight or more runners, whilst a handicap race with 16 runners or more will see the first four places being classed as " placed ".

One barrier per lap is placed in front of a water pit, meaning that runners are also forced to deal with the chafing of wet shoes as they race.

More likely to hit the ball sharply to the left side of the infield, placed in the order of the lineup so that he usually had runners on base ahead of him, and less likely to beat throws to first base, and having a very long career because he was a good hitter for average and power, this competent hitter grounded into an unusual number of double plays.

In recent years, on average, about 25, 000 runners finish the Honolulu Marathon each year, and it has consistently placed among the world's ten largest marathons in terms of total finishers.

He also placed first in throwing out runners, catching 48. 6 percent of runners attempting to steal.

While both Palauan athletes finished 53rd, there was a significant difference between Roman, who was the last placed finisher in the 200 metres, and Florencio, who finished ahead of several other runners and set a new personal best.

Called " Zemestan " ( Winter ), this volume boosted Sales's career and placed him among the top runners for the mantle of Nima Yushij.

The Crusaders placed all 7 runners in the top ten at district and moved on to the Region III meet, winning the Region title.

The Crusaders placed five runners in the top ten.

Open runners are placed in the remaining 8. 5k stage and the 13k stage.

Their nostrils are placed high on the snout, indicating that these animals are highly aquatic, but are also excellent climbers and quick runners on land.

This in turn is placed on two elongated ovals, which are almost like runners.

He placed in the bottom half of the eight runners who took part in the single race of the event, though his exact placing is unclear.

He placed in the bottom half of the eight runners who took part in the single race of the event, though his exact placing is unclear.

He placed in the bottom half of the eight runners who took part in the single race of the event, though his exact placing is unclear.

She placed as the runners up with her partner, Maxime Dereymez.

Over the course of her career she placed in the season's top-ten 400 m runners a total of six times.