Ron Kirkwood will talk July 17 at 7 pm at the York County History Center, 250 E. Market St. His topic is the George Spangler Farm Hospitals at Gettysburg.
Gettysburg battlefield Archives
Ron Kirkwood wrote a new book on Gettysburg’s George Spangler farm, which was pressed into service as a temporary field hospital after the battle.
The Gettysburg National Military Park has released its 2019 spring and summer schedule of talks and battle walks by its staff of park rangers.
More than 800 American soldiers, many of them German or Austrian Jews, trained for psychological warfare at Gettysburg’s secretive Camp Sharpe.
York author and webmaster Randy Drais was part of a volunteer team that recovered old ties of the defunct Gettysburg & Harrisburg RR, which once ran through the battlefield.
The York Civil War Round Table kicks off its 2019 campaign with author Randy Drais discussing W. H. Tipton’s vintage photographs of Gettysburg.
Long-time author Scott Mingus presents a PowerPoint talk on R. H. Anderson’s Division at Gettysburg, with a focus on the fighting on the second day, July 1, in the center of the Union line.
The York (PA) Civil War Round Table welcomes Dr. Charlie Fennell on Sept. 19 for his lecture on the 1st US Sharpshooters (Berdan’s Sharpshooters) at Gettysburg. The free meeting is at 7 pm at the York County History Center.
The George Spangler Farm Civil War Field Hospital Programs Summer Season Opens June 8, 2018
On the cloudy morning of Monday, June 29, 1863, Confederate Colonel Isaac E. Avery awoke