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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.
Table of 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.