![]() Ives had been shot on July 3 and lay dying. Within days of the battle, Sarah found herself at a field hospital nursing a wounded young Confederate soldier from the 1st Maryland Battalion. Many women heeded the call, including a number of ladies from Baltimore, among whom was a young, "energetic" woman named Sarah Hutchins. Christian Commission-an organization founded in 1861 by the YMCA and dedicated to caring for the spiritual and physical needs of Union soldiers-called for civilian volunteers to go to Gettysburg to nurse the sick and wounded back to health and to care for those who were dying. "The moans, prayers and shrieks of the wounded and dying were heard everywhere." "All rooms, halls, and hallways, were occupied with the poor deluded sons of the South," he wrote. ![]() More than 160 field hospitals were hastily set up in tents, homes, barns, churches, and other buildings throughout the area.Īt a building known as the College Edifice at Pennsylvania College (now an administrative office building at Gettysburg College), some 900 rebel soldiers lay wounded, awaiting medical attention. Piles of amputated limbs littered the field, and bodies lay strewn across the land awaiting burial. On the first three days of July 1863, some 160,000 Union and Confederate troops engaged in a bloody combat that is sometimes called the "High-Water Mark of the Confederacy." Upward of 51,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing. Gettysburg is perhaps the most famous battle in American history. This image was on the frontispiece of his 1866 memoir, Four Years in the Saddle. Harry Gilmor was captured in February 1865 and then released in July. ![]()
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