 1864. So this is just a couple months after he's writing a letter to his brother about how conciliation still in the summer of 1864 is the best approach. By October, the first week of October 1864, as the army of the Shenandoah engages in that campaign of the burning, Thoburn begins to alter his perspective. As the army was in Harrisonburg, Virginia, he wrote a letter to his brother