"Too Much for Human Endurance" - The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg (Ronald D. Kirkwood -gc) Helmets S/L# 34820

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With the war in Europe winding down in the spring of 1945

Confederate soldiers lived and fought within military units where they experienced the traumatic strain of combat and its privations together--all the while being separated from suffering families

served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina

was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment

"Too Much for Human Endurance" - The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg (Ronald D. Kirkwood -gc) Helmets S/L# 34820"Too Much for Human Endurance": The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg By Ron Kirkwood The bloodstains are gone, but the worn floorboards remain. The doctors, nurses, and patients who toiled and suffered and ached for home at the Army of the Potomacs XI Corps hospital at the George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg have long since departed. Happily, though, their stories remain, and noted journalist and George Spangler Farm expert