A Hospital Under Fire

As the threshing floor in front of this site filled with wounded, W. R. Kiefer of the 153rd Pennsylvania noted that the maimed were placed with their heads next to the bays and middle partition of the threshing floor, leaving a passageway at the patients’ feet. Two days later, on July 3, wounded soldiers lying there viewed the Confederate cannonade preceding Pickett’s Charge. Pvt. Stephen Romig of the 153rd Pennsylvania Infantry recalled that he had a fine view of the bursting shells coming in their direction, that there were at one time six explosions of shells in one moment, and that the danger became so great that every man was removed while the surgeon who had shortly before examined his wound ran for his life.

Pennsylvania · United States