In the late days of 1863, Samuel Albright’s house and farm were used as a Confederate bivouac site and artillery position. In the 1860 Census, Samuel Albright was listed as born “about 1823” and living in what was then East Pennsboro Township. William Eppley rented the Albright house and resided there during the Confederate invasion. In early June 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee began shifting his units northward through the Shenandoah Valley and into Maryland and Pennsylvania. By June 27, Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell’s Confederate Second Corps had reached Carlisle. On the morning of June 28, Brigadier General Albert G. Jenkins, leading the army’s vanguard, moved east towards Harrisburg and captured Mechanicsburg. He then split his brigade, sending some to the Trindle Road and the remainder to the Carlisle Pike. White Hall citizen Zacheus Bowman ventured from his home westward on the Carlisle Pike and ran into advance Union pickets on his walk to the Albright House. Bowman recalled that he and Philip Kepford went up to the house, saw a lot of milk in the cellar, heard a calf bawling in the barn, and fed it with milk from the house. Bowman also recalled meeting Confederates face to face near the barn and seeing the rebels’ battle line and outside pickets, which he guessed numbered about a half dozen. Lieutenant Colonel Vincent A. Witcher of the 34th Virginia Cavalry Battalion then decided to unlimber his artillery. With him were two pieces of Jackson’s Kanawha Horse Artillery, a howitzer under Lieutenant Randolph Blain and a three-inch Ordnance Rifle under Lieutenant Micajah Wood. Wood wrote that they remained with the brigade for a day or two in front of Harrisburg, attacking the enemy at exposed points each day, and that the rifled gun in his section was called upon more often than the other pieces because of its greater range. From Oyster’s Point, Nicholas Rice of the 30th Pennsylvania Militia saw a column of cavalry form along a rise of ground and then a battery swing into position and fire a few well-directed shots. Witcher camped behind the Albright House, returned on June 29, and kept up a fire for between one and two hours. Later, he led a cavalry charge to Oyster’s Point from the Albright House with his 34th Virginia Cavalry Battalion. This diversion allowed Jenkins to observe Harrisburg’s defenses from Slate Hill and the heights west of New Cumberland. Early on June 30, Witcher retired to Silver Spring Creek and later fought at Sporting Hill, ending the Confederate occupation of the Albright House.