Too much for human endurance : the George Spangler farm hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg / Ronald D. Kirkwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirkwood, Ronald D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army of the Potomac. Corps, 11th.

United States.

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.

George Spangler Farm & Field Hospital (Gettysburg, Pa.).

Military hospitals--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg Region--History--19th century.

Military hospitals.

Farms--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg Region--History--19th century.

Farms.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.

Spangler family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 pages)

Place of Publication:

El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie, [2019]

Summary:

"Using a massive array of firsthand accounts, Kirkwood re-creates the sprawling XI Corps hospital complex and the people who labored and suffered there--especially George and Elizabeth Spangler and their four children, who built a thriving 166-acre farm only to witness it nearly destroyed when war paid them a bloody visit that summer of 1863"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Spanglers stayed

An early start on the suffering

In the middle of it all

Restless nights (Ruch report no. 1)

The Hovey family

The medicine and sanitation

A sunrise walk

The artillery reserve to the rescue

Pvt. George Nixon III

Day 2 at the hospital (Ruch report no. 2)

The granite schoolhouse hospital

July 3, 1863 (Ruch report no. 3)

Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead

July 4, 1863 (Ruch report no. 4)

The Barlows at Spangler

Nurse Rebecca Lane Pennypacker Price

Gerrit Smith, Joseph Heeney, and Nurse Price

Charity pours in (Ruch report no. 5)

The Spangler surgeons (Ruch report no. 6)

After the fight (Ruch report no. 7)

The other Spanglers (Ruch report no. 8)

What happened to the Spanglers

A tour of the farm today.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611214529

1611214521