"Tell Mother Not to Worry"

Soldier Stories From Gettysburg's

George Spangler Farm​

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The George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg is now a place of reverence. It is where nurses held the hands of dying soldiers - praying and speaking last words with them amid the blood, stench, and agony of two separate hospitals. And it is where heroic surgeons resolutely worked around the clock trying to save the lives of Yankee and Rebel alike. Soldiers such as Col. Edward E. Cross, who died at Granite Schoolhouse, and Brigadier General Lewis Armistead, who also arrived to the hospital mortally wounded, would spend some of their final hours at the Spangler Family’s Farm.
 

Author Ronald D. Kirkwood’s best-selling “Too Much for Human Endurance”: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg established the military and medical importance of the Spangler farm and hospitals. Join us as he shares his further research of thousands of pension, military and hospital records, letters, diaries and newspapers in authoring the sequel “Tell Mother Not to Worry”: Soldier Stories From Gettysburg’s George Spangler Farm.