Civil War Encampment to be held at Gettysburg Train Station
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) - 5/14/2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE �
CONTACT:
Carla E. Pavlick
Civil War Institute
(717) 337-6608
Members of the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers will recreate the sights and sounds of a Civil War Hospital Memorial Day Weekend, May 23rd and 24th at the Historic Gettysburg Railroad Station, 35 Carlisle St., Gettysburg. There will be two presentations each day and re-enactors will be available for questions during regular hours. This event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment was on Oak Ridge under the command of General John Reynolds. The Confederates pushed the 88th back and through town. Regimental Surgeon John W. Rawlins and Francis Murphy helped treat wounded soldiers at The Historic Gettysburg Railroad Station when it was used as a field hospital.
Schedule:
11 a.m. Orientation
This informational program will describe how Civil War field
hospitals worked and will include a question and answer session.
2 p.m. Living Theatre Presentation
Character recreations of John W. Rawlins, Regimental Surgeon,
Joseph Shoemaker, and Francis Murphy, and other medical
personnel of the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Recreations of
arm amputations, bullet probes, artillery facial burns, saber
wounds, etc. Embalming will also be demonstrated.
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Commission and the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
The purpose of the PA ALBC is to organize, arrange, and
coordinate bicentennial tributes to Abraham Lincoln in
Pennsylvania, and to coordinate those activities with the
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission of the federal
government and other interested parties.
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