The Round Top hospitals during the Battle of Gettysburg were located at the Little Round Top side of the Gettysburg Battlefield at 2 houses now in the community of Round Top, Pennsylvania.
A Union 1st Division [2] field hospital was temporarily located at the Round Top farm of Levi and Mary Plank. [3] [1] The farmhouse is located near the local crest of the Taneytown Rd, but in 1863 "on the morning of July 3 [the hospital] was moved to the M. Fissel Farm east of Rock Creek". [2] The stone house on the road's west side (#921 Taneytown Rd), and the farm's barn was on the opposite side of the road (#920) until it burned in 1967. [4] In 1916, the home was the site of an accidental shooting of the local blacksmith's daughter, aged 12, [5] who survived with the cranial bullet [6] and became the Round Top schoolmarm. [7]
The John & Harriet Group house along the road now named Sachs Rd was the field hospital where "General Taylor[ specify] died in the house and was buried in [the] garden, but his body was removed several days later. Mrs. Barlow frequently visited the house" (General Francis C. Barlow had been taken to the house after being wounded at Barlow Knoll [4] and initially being treated at the Josiah Benner farm near the Harrisburg Road bridge over Rock Creek. [8] The farm of 34 acres (14 ha) was subsequently purchased by the Group's son, Jacob, in 1891. [9]
The Round Top hospitals during the Battle of Gettysburg were located at the Little Round Top side of the Gettysburg Battlefield at 2 houses now in the community of Round Top, Pennsylvania.
A Union 1st Division [2] field hospital was temporarily located at the Round Top farm of Levi and Mary Plank. [3] [1] The farmhouse is located near the local crest of the Taneytown Rd, but in 1863 "on the morning of July 3 [the hospital] was moved to the M. Fissel Farm east of Rock Creek". [2] The stone house on the road's west side (#921 Taneytown Rd), and the farm's barn was on the opposite side of the road (#920) until it burned in 1967. [4] In 1916, the home was the site of an accidental shooting of the local blacksmith's daughter, aged 12, [5] who survived with the cranial bullet [6] and became the Round Top schoolmarm. [7]
The John & Harriet Group house along the road now named Sachs Rd was the field hospital where "General Taylor[ specify] died in the house and was buried in [the] garden, but his body was removed several days later. Mrs. Barlow frequently visited the house" (General Francis C. Barlow had been taken to the house after being wounded at Barlow Knoll [4] and initially being treated at the Josiah Benner farm near the Harrisburg Road bridge over Rock Creek. [8] The farm of 34 acres (14 ha) was subsequently purchased by the Group's son, Jacob, in 1891. [9]