THE GETTYSBURG WAR HOSPITALS

• I Corps Hospital. Near St. Marks Church on the Baltimore Pike.

• II Corps Hospital. On Hospital Road, southwest of the George Bushman Farmhouse.

• VI Corps Hospital. North of the John Trostle Farmhouse on the farm lane, near the Goulden Road.

• XI Corps Hospital. Hospital Road, east of the George Spangler Farmhouse.

• XII Corps Hospital, Hospital Road, west of the George Bushman Farmhouse.

• Letterman General Hospital. Hospital Woods, northeast of Lincoln Square, just West of the Giant Foods store.

• Hankeys on Mummasburg Rd.

• Sheelers Place.

• Wibles Place, near York Road.

• Poorhouse Orchard.

• Plank's Place.

• Wolf's Field. On Widow Youngs farm.

• Geo. Bushman farm. Near the Felix House.

• Daniel Lady's farm

• Field at Picking's Place.

• M. Trostle's Place.

• Jacob Schwartz.

• John Hertingin wood, across the creek from Bream's Mill.

• Bream's Mill Dam, at Currens.

Letterman General Hospital

Sources:

Roland R. Maust. Grappling With Death: The Union Second Corps Hospital at Gettysburg, Morningside House, Inc., 2001

Gregory A. Coco. A Vast Sea of Misery, Thomas Publications, 1988, ISBN-0-939631-09-1.

Historic Gettysburg-Adams County and the Hospital & Heath System Association of Virginia. Gettysburg Civil War Field Hospital Tour, 1991. Highlights a few of the documented sites in Adams County that were designated by Civil War Field Hospital signs; covers 17 Union and 18 Confederate hospital sites. Cost about $7.00.

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