View of the position occupied by the Union sharpshooters as outposts showing the Emmettsburg Road and Baltimore Pike.
Historical Images of Philadelphia Americana
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Source: Print and Picture Collection
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Battlefields -- Gettsburg, PA.
donated by Mrs. Lee Nusbaum 5/1939
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The Battle of Gettysburg, like almost all Civil War battles, raged over the private property of ordinary farmers and citizens. The buildings on these properties, if they were not destroyed, were often converted into field hospitals to treat wounded and dying soldiers. Here, dead artillery horses in front of Trostle’s barn, July 1863.
One of the many battlefield farms housed Henry Spangler and his family. Located on the Baltimore Turnpike just southeast of town, Henry Spangler’s farm was just behind the fighting on Culp’s Hill. Wounded Union soldiers were taken to a field hospital established at and around the Spangler farmhouse. The soldiers who died there were buried on Spangler’s property.
-- http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg/gettysburg-2011/spanglers-farm-tract/
Creator Name: Nusbaum, Lee, Mrs. - Donor