PRINTER'S NO. 2076
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
456
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY ALLOWAY, STREET, DINNIMAN, MARTIN, SCHWANK,
BROWNE, RAFFERTY, BREWSTER AND WHITE, OCTOBER 3, 2018
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, OCTOBER 3, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Honoring Camp Letterman.
WHEREAS, In July 1863, an official United States general
hospital was ordered to be opened in Gettysburg on land owned by
George Wolf and located approximately one and one-half miles
east of Gettysburg; and
WHEREAS, The general hospital, which was the first to be
placed on the Gettysburg battlefield, was named Camp Letterman
after Dr. Jonathan Letterman, the medical director of the Army
of the Potomac; and
WHEREAS, Established near a railroad station for ease of
movement of incoming medical supplies and wounded soldiers, Camp
Letterman was located on what is now the York Pike and was the
largest field hospital in North America; and
WHEREAS, The hospital was established to treat both Union and
Confederate soldiers who were unable to be transferred to other
general hospitals; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Henry Janes was in charge of the general
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hospital and kept careful notes about each patient treated; and
WHEREAS, The camp remained open and treated soldiers until
November 20, 1863; and
WHEREAS, The camp treated more than 4,000 patients; and
WHEREAS, Three hundred sixty-five soldiers, forty of whom
resided in this Commonwealth, died at Camp Letterman; and
WHEREAS, In 1864, the Union soldiers buried at the camp were
removed and reburied in Gettysburg National Cemetery; and
WHEREAS, In the 1870s, the remains of the Confederate
soldiers were removed and reburied in the South; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate honor Camp Letterman.
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