 Complete the following phrase:  Upon returning to the Shedoah Valley, Augusta County voters again elected Harper to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he served until 1864. On June 2 of that year, after abolitionist Union General David Hunters raid into the Shedoah Valley, Harper accepted re-appointment as a colonel in the Confederate Army in order to form a regiment from reservist companies located in the Shedoah Valley. During the Valley Campaigns of 1864 under General Jubal Early, Confederate raiders destroyed Harpers original hometown, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania on July 30, 1864 in retaliation for Hunters campaign as well as its failure to pay ransom. However, Union forces continued to attack the Shedoah valley. Col. Harper and his troops under General Early were routed at the Battle of Piedmont on June 56, 1864 and then the 