Probably the biggest risk of going north in 1863 was this: sooner or later, unless they managed to win the war while in the north, Lee's army was going to have to return to the south, and when they did, no matter what, it was going to look like a retreat, and that they had been defeated.
1 A summary offense is the most minor type of criminal offense in Pennsylvania, and is often called a ânon-traffic citation.â.  Summary offenses can include disorderly conduct, loitering, harassment, and low-level retail theft, among others.
At common law any private citizen could (and stillcan) lay a âcomplaintâ for a summary criminal offence 25 and in most jurisdictions it is still thecase today that the police summary prosecution is brought in the name of the individual policeofficer rather than the Police Force or the State.