By August 1, 1863, army surgeon Dr. P. Gardner reported that the temporary United States Hospital created in Pleasant Hill Hotel provided abundant comforts and luxuries supplied by sympathetic local people and administered to wounded soldiers by devoted women. The government rented Pleasant Hill Hotel, which had been used as a private academy, and from July 10 until August 15 all wounded soldiers were transferred there. Conveyed by train from Gettysburg through Hanover, 12,000 to 14,000 wounded men were dispatched to Baltimore, York, Philadelphia, and Harrisburg, while about 150 wounded were kept at Hanover. By sunset June 30, 1863, the day of the Battle of Hanover, local physicians Jacob Smith, George Hinkle, John Culbertson, Henry Eckert, and Horace Alleman had cared for sixty or more wounded soldiers in the Center Square at Concert Hall. Marion Hall, a small building to the rear of York Street used by Marion Rifles, was also converted into a temporary hospital, and Flickinger's Foundry on York Street became a temporary morgue.

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