Images of America: Gettysburg (Dolly Nasby - AG) gottfried No one would have expected

No one would have expected them to become friends—or to transform the country

his honor and his disloyalty

Nearly one in three of those men ended up a casualty of that battle

James Gindlesperger provides a context for the medical and organizational constraints of the era and then provides details about the aid stations and field hospitals created in the aftermath of the battle

Edwin Stanton

Images of America: Gettysburg (Dolly Nasby - AG) gottfried No one would have expectedby Dolly Nasby Located about ninety minutes from three major metro areas Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia Gettysburg sits in the "fertile crescent," an area brimming with agricultural possibilities. Founded in the 1700s by James Gettys, the little town became headline material during the Civil War, although area residents never expected to be at the forefront of that controversy. Fate, however, had its way with the town, and Gettysburg found