
"Tell Mother Not to Worry": Soldier Stories From Gettysburgs George Spangler Farm
The George Spangler farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Nurses held the hands of dying soldiers and prayed and spoke last words with them amid the blood, stench, and agony of two hospitals. Heroic surgeons resolutely worked around the clock to save lives. Author Ronald D. Kirkwood's best-selling "Too Much for Human Endurance" The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg established the military and medical importance of the Spangler farm and hospitals. "Tell Mother Not to Worry" Soldier Stories from Gettysburg's George Spangler Farm is Ron's eagerly awaited sequel.Kirkwood researched thousands of pension and military records, hospital files, letters, newspapers, and diaries of those present at the hospitals on Spangler land during and after the battle. The result is a deeper and richer understanding of what these men and women endured--suffering that often lingered for the rest of their lives. Their injuries and deaths, North and South, brought not only tragi