[Notes] 1863 Jul. 1-3, at the battlefield Gettysbg / S. W. Crawford.

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[Notes] 1863 Jul. 1-3, at the battlefield Gettysbg / S. W. Crawford.

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Crawford's pencil notes written on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa. in July 1863 provide a first-hand account from the General's point of view.

[6] p. ; 16-20 cm.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Crawford, Jr., Samuel Wylie, 1829-1892

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Crawford was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1846 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1850. He joined the U.S. Army as an assistant surgeon in 1851 and served in that capacity for ten years. Crawford was the surgeon on duty at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, during the Confederate bombardment in 1861, which represented the start of the Civil War. Despite his purely medical background, he was in command of several of ...