Gettysburg Train Station 75th In Remembering the Civil War

In Remembering the Civil War

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breadbasket of the Confederacy and the South's key invasion route into the North

He would just keep at them until he used them up

Gettysburg National Military Park Ranger Karlton Smith

Gettysburg Train Station 75th In Remembering the Civil WarCompleted in 1859 the Gettysburg Train Station served as the westernmost terminal for the Western Maryland Railroad; connecting Gettysburg to Hanover and other larger east coast cities. During the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 3, 1863, it served as a field hospital for wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. After the Battle of Gettysburg, this historic train station accommodated thousands of wounded Union soldiers as they began their long journeys