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    SCHOOLHOUSE HOSPITAL

    Jan 21, 2020 3 minutes

    General Lewis A. Armistead’s arrival at the 11th Corps hospital at the Spangler Farm on the evening of July 3 likely coincided with the arrival of decades-long friend Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, commander of the 2nd Corps, at what was left of the 1st Division, 2nd Corps hospital at the Granite Schoolhouse on the Spangler property. Hancock had been wounded by fragments from his saddle when it was struck by a bullet during Pickett’s Charge.

    The schoolhouse had just

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