Field Hospitals - Eleventh Corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Eleventh Corps were established on July 1st at the Spangler House two hundred and thirty yards west of this point. Many of the wounded of this corps were also cared for at the County Almshouse, Pennsylvania College, and in Gettysburg. About July 6th, the division hospitals were consolidated into a corps hospital, as were those of all the corps, and the corps hospitals continued in operation until the first week of August 1863. These hospitals cared for 1400 wounded. The medical personnel named for this service were Medical Director of the Eleventh Corps Surgeon George Suckley, U.S. Volunteers; 1st Division Surgeon Louis G. Meyer, 25th Ohio Infantry; 2nd Division Surgeon D.G. Brinton, U.S. Volunteers; 3rd Division Surgeon W.H. Thome, U.S. Volunteers; and Medical Officer in charge of the Corps Hospitals Surgeon J.A. Armstrong, 75th Penna. Infantry.

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