Women to the Rescue at the Battle of Gettysburg's George Spangler Farm
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Some women worked as nurses at the XI Corps hospital. They listened to the dying men talk of their families, gave them water, treated their wounds, wrote letters home for them, held their hands and sang to them as they took their final breath. Others cooked and baked bread and washed filthy and bloody clothes and hospital linens. Most of these women helped save lives, and every single one made a difference.
Ron Kirkwood is the author of “Too Much for Human Endurance: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg,” which was published by Savas Beatie LLC in hardcover in June 2019. The book went into its second hardcover printing in October 2019, and both hardcover editions are now sold out. It was published in paperback in January 2021 and audio in February 2021.
Kirkwood is retired after a 40-year career as an editor and writer in newspapers and magazines including USA TODAY, the Baltimore Sun, the Harrisburg Patriot-News and the York Daily Record. He edited national magazines for USA TODAY Sports and was National Football League editor for USA TODAY Sports Weekly. He won numerous state, regional and national writing and editing awards during his career and managed the 32-person copy desk in Harrisburg when the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Kirkwood is a Michigan native and graduate of Central Michigan University, where he has returned as guest speaker to journalism classes as part of the school’s Hearst Visiting Professionals series.
Kirkwood has been a Gettysburg Foundation guide at the George Spangler Farm Civil War Field Hospital Site since it opened in 2013. He lives in York with his wife of 45 years, Barbara.
An extremely interesting program! Thank you very much.
This was a fantastic presentation. Thank you Ron! And thank you Adams County Historical Society!
These are the best!
Incredibly moving talk. The pictures also brought it to life. Such horror, but such sacrifice and caring. Thanks for such a great talk.
Outstanding presentation! Thank you!
Thank you for making this video
Fascinating!
Great work! I had a hunch that Rebecca Pennypacker Price was probably related to Samuel Pennypacker the former Governor of PA. So after your video I checked it out and they were 1st cousins. I adds a whole new layer when visiting the Pennypacker Mills museum, it’s neat to think that she was probably visiting with her family there.
It was magnificent what they did at the Spangler Farm. Just another amazing story of Gettysburg. Thank you for sharing!
Hello from Connecticut.
Born and raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania. God bless these brave and courageous women.
Thanks to all that made this happen .
Hello from Ottawa, Canada. Thank you!
Great job Ron. 👏
Hello from Hanover Pa
Great work, Ron. Thank you so much. Can't wait to be there with our Civil War Time Travelers in October.
I just found your site i love history do you have anything on the 10th mass some of those men are from where im from springfield mass.
Thank you for recognizing these brave women! Wonderful presentation and book.
Buying the book!!! Thank you for telling about the ladies who were SO IMPORTANT to our soldiers and their families ❤
God bless them all and rest in peace Jenny Wade