Camp Letterman
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Camp Letterman was once the largest field hospital ever built in
North America. Camp Letterman General Hospital near Gettysburg,
was chosen for on the George Wolf Farm, east of Gettysburg on the
York Pike. The farm was near the main road and the railroad where
a depot was established. Trains would deliver a supplies for the
Gettysburg camp and take recovering patients to permanent
hospitals in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. It was ready
by mid-July and had a small army of surgeons, nurses, cooks,
quartermaster and supply clerks while a detachment of infantry
acted as camp guards to look after supplies and wounded
Confederate prisoners. 1,200 men were buried on site at Camp
Letterman. All traces of the camp are gone except for a small section in a Giant Foods parking lot. Union dead in the camp graveyard were removed to the Soldiers National Cemetery in 1864 and southern remains were exhumed in the 1870s for relocation to southern cemeteries. |
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