With battles close by in Northern Virginia, Mansion House illustrates a functioning hospital filled with recently wounded. Please visit our website or call 71 for further information. Many functioned well, and were utilized throughout most of the war. The church is air conditioned and accessible to all. Immediately on the first day of the Battle, this church was converted into a hospital, and continued to care for the wounded and dying for five weeks. Songs and Stories recounts the slaying of Chaplain Horatio Howell on the church’s front steps on the first day of the Battle, and it recounts how a local African-American woman escaped her captors and hid in the church to avoid life as a slave.Ĭhrist Church cordially invites the public to Songs and Stories of a Civil War Hospital. Period costume is encouraged, and light refreshments will be served. Songs and Stories presents a brief history of Christ Lutheran Church, the oldest building in Gettysburg in continuous use for worship. Each, visitor will be given the name of a wounded soldier who was actually treated at Christ Church. At the end of the program, the soldier’s fate will be revealed…did he live or did he die? To conclude each performance the audience is invited to rise and join in singing a patriotic song. After its patient population spiked following the battles of Bull Run and Gettysburg, this. Operating from 1862 to 1865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its physicians and nurses rendered care to thousands of Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners. You have managed to educate, provoke thought, and play on our emotions, all the while entertaining us.” The program includes a variety of vocal and instrumental music from the Civil War era, as well as sing-alongs in which the audience is invited to participate. Satterlee General Hospital was the largest Union Army hospital during the American Civil War. More than 16,000 people have attended Songs and Stories over the past fifteen years, endorsing this program with comments such as “…one of the best experiences on our trip…. Songs and Stories also includes passages from President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. The experiences of the wounded and their caregivers are presented through poignant readings from soldiers’ journals and the diary of a citizen-nurse who served in this church hospital, through live Civil War era music, especially the Civil War songs of Stephen Foster, and through the poetry of Walt Whitman who served as a Civil War nurse for three years. Songs and Stories of a Civil War Hospital brings to life the true stories of wounded soldiers and the doctors and nurses who worked valiantly to save lives - both Union and Confederate - during the Battle of Gettysburg and the following weeks.
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