In the days and weeks after the battle, the barnyard and fields filled with wounded men and medical supplies as hospital tents, the barn, and hundreds of shelter tents were crowded, while some of the wounded still had to lie out in the open air. Pvt. Justus Silliman of the 17th Connecticut Infantry wrote of the overflowing hospital, centered on Spangler's barn, where operating tables stood under the eaves. Arriving there after the battle, Maj. Gen. Carl Schurz of the Eleventh Corps saw surgeons with rolled-up sleeves, their bare arms and linen aprons smeared with blood, amid pools of blood and heaps of amputated arms and legs.