Field Hospitals - Third Corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Third Corps of the Army of the Potomac were located on July 2nd in houses and barns along the Taneytown Road from the Schoolhouse Road to the Mill Road. During the night they were removed to the south side of White Run three hundred yards from its junction with Rock Creek. These hospitals cared for more than 2500 wounded and were closed about August 6th 1863. The medical leadership included Medical Director 3rd Corps Surgeon Thomas Sim of the U.S. Volunteers, 1st Division Surgeon J.W. Lyman of the 57th Pennsylvania Infantry, 2nd Division Assistant Surgeon J.T. Calhoun of the U.S. Army, and Medical Officer in charge of the Corps Hospitals Surgeon Thaddeus Hildreth of the 3rd Maine Infantry.

Pennsylvania · United States