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Too Much for Human Endurance : The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg by Ronald D. Kirkwood (2019, Hardcover)

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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 Potomac's 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 Ronald D. Kirkwood brings these people and their experiences to life in "Too Much for Human Endurance": The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg. 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. Stories rarely if ever told of nurses, surgeons, ambulance workers, musicians, teenage fighters, and others are weaved seamlessly through gripping, smooth-flowing prose. A host of notables spent time at the Spangler farm, including Union officers George G. Meade, Henry J. Hunt, Edward E. Cross, Francis Barlow, Francis Mahler, Freeman McGilvery, and Samuel K. Zook. Pvt. George Nixon III, great-grandfather of President Richard M. Nixon, would die there, as would Confederate Gen. Lewis A. Armistead, who fell mortally wounded at the height of Pickett's Charge. In addition to including the most complete lists ever published of the dead, wounded, and surgeons at the Spanglers' XI Corps hospital, this study breaks new ground with stories of the First Division, II Corps hospital at the Spanglers' Granite Schoolhouse. Kirkwood also establishes the often-overlooked strategic importance of the property and its key role in the Union victory. Army of the Potomac generals took advantage of the farm's size, access to roads, and central location to use it as a staging area to get artillery and infantry to the embattled front line from Little Round Top north to Cemetery Hill just in time to prevent its collapse and a Confederate breakthrough. "Too Much for Human Endurance": The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg introduces readers to heretofore untold stories of the Spanglers, their farm, those who labored to save lives and those who suffered and died there. They have finally received the recognition their place in history deserves.

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Publisher
Savas Beatie
ISBN-10
1611214513
ISBN-13
9781611214512
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038500582

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Book Title
Too Much for Human Endurance : the George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg
Author
Ronald D. Kirkwood
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / General, Military / United States, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Modern / 19th Century, Agriculture / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Number of Pages
384 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in

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Lc Classification Number
E475.53.K57 2019
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An original and unique work of meticulous and exhaustive research, "Too Much for Human Endurance": The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg" is further enhanced for academia with the inclusion of six appendices, a ten page bibliography, and a nine page index. A truly extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to community, college, and university library American Civil War history collections, A rather different perspective on Gettysburg that will both increase readers' understanding of the battle and also remind them of the awful human cost of the Civil War that is not recreated on their table top battlefields.
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-005827
Dewey Decimal
973.7349
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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