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Gettysburg: "While Lying Here Entirely Helpless"
Lieutenant Charles A. Fuller served in the 61st New York Infantry Regiment. On July 2, 1863, while fighting in The Wheatfield during the Battle of...
"We Came to a Small Log House Where Our Wounded Had Been Carried"
Riley M. Hoskinson—a provisions master in the Union army—wrote to his wife on October 27, 1863, describing a Civil War field hospital and how he had...
Walt Whitman and Civil War Hospitals
The following are excerpts from Walt Whitman’s Complete Prose Works.
"Our Division Had a Rude Field Hospital"
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was severely wounded on June 18, 1864, while leading a Union charge near Petersburg, Virginia.