At Gettysburg, PA, during three days of July 1863, 160,000 men fought one of the most fierce and storied battles of the US Civil War.
Nearly one in three of those men ended up a casualty of that battle, and when the two armies departed a few days later, 21,000 wounded remained.
This book is the story of how those soldiers were cared for in a town of 2,500 people.
Historian and author of several other guides to Gettysburg, James Gindlesperger provides a context for the med.
Blair Bullets and bandages: the aid stations and field hospitals at gettysburg, hardcover/james gindlesperger
