The George Spangler Farm was one of the most intact Civil War field hospitals used during the battle of Gettysburg. George Spangler bought the farm in 1848, thirteen years before civil war erupted and destroyed his farmland and crops. For five weeks, from July to August 1863, the Spangler family’s homestead was occupied by the Union army’s Eleventh Corps, which used the buildings and fields as a hospital for some 1,900 wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. Over the years, the farm witnessed many changes, and work has been done to reveal the property as it was in 1863 and secure its legacy through preservation.
