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"Too much for human endurance" : the George Spangler farm hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg /

Using a massive array of firsthand accounts, Kirkwood recreates 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 pai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kirkwood, Ronald D. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie, [2019]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	United States. > Army of the Potomac. > Corps, 11th. Spangler family. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Hospitals. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Medical care. Military hospitals > Pennsylvania > Gettysburg Region > History > 19th century. Farms > Pennsylvania > Gettysburg Region > History > 19th century.

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