Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Introduction ix
Chapter 1 Our Land, Our Home: The Spanglers 1
Chapter 2 An Early Start on the Suffering 12
Chapter 3 In the Middle of It All: The Spangler Farm Hospital 28
Chapter 4 Restless Nights 43
Chapter 5 Love and Madness: The Hovey Family 51
Chapter 6 Medicine, Sanitation, and Survival 62
Chapter 7 A Sunrise Walk 75
Chapter 8 The Artillery Reserve to the Rescue 86
Chapter 9 For Family and Country: Pvt. George Nixon III 106
Chapter 10 Flood Tide: Day Two at the XI Corps Hospital 114
Chapter 11 The Granite Schoolhouse Hospital 125
Chapter 12 Danger from Every Direction: Day Three at the XI Corps Hospital 143
Chapter 13 The Death of Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead 159
Chapter 14 July 4, 1863 183
Chapter 15 The Barlows: A Wounded General and his Wife at the Spangler Farm 201
Chapter 16 A lingering Agony: Nurse Rebecca Price's Spangler Experience 209
Chapter 17 Gerrit Smith, Joseph Heeney, and Nurse Price 223
Chapter 18 Charity Pours In 228
Chapter 19 The Spangler Surgeons 247
Chapter 20 After the Fight 257
Chapter 21 The Other Spanglers 271
Chapter 22 What Happened to the Spanglers? 283
Chapter 23 A Tour of the Modern Spangler Farm 296
Appendix 1 Biographies of the Spangier Surgeons 313
Appendix 2 The XI Corps at Gettysburg 325
Appendix 3 The Artillery Reserve at Gettysburg 326
Appendix 4 Where was the 2nd Connecticut Light Battery? 327
Appendix 5 The XI Corps Hospital Wounded 331
Appendix 6 The XI Corps Hospital Dead 366
Bibliography 373
Index 383
Acknowledgments 392
