1863July 1863 – January 1864 · Gettysburg
Gettysburg's field hospitals and Camp Letterman
The armies left more than 20,000 wounded in and around a town of about 2,400 people. Churches, barns, farmhouses and the Lutheran Seminary became hospitals, and families nursed soldiers in their own homes. From late July the Union army moved men who could not yet travel to Camp Letterman, a tent hospital beside the York Pike named after its medical director, which closed in January 1864.
Sites
- Site 1: Seminary Ridge MuseumThe seminary building used as a hospital, with galleries on its wartime care of the wounded.Map ↗
- Site 2: George Spangler Farm Field HospitalRestored farm that served as the Union Eleventh Corps hospital, open in season.Map ↗
- Site 3: Camp Letterman site, York PikeMarkers and open ground east of town where the tent hospital stood.Map ↗
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