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“Too Much for Human Endurance”: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg

March 22 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Saturday, March 22  |  1pm – 2pm  |  Presented by Ron Kirkwood

The blood stains 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.

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March 22
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Civil War Museum
5400 1st Ave
Kenosha, WI 53140 United States
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