Too Much for Human Endurance
Subtitle: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781611214512
Subjects: United states, army; Gettysburg, battle of, gettysburg, pa., 1863; Military hospitals; Farms; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, hospitals; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, medical care
Description: "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"--