Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Third Corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Third Corps were located July 2nd in houses and barns along the Taneytown Road from the Schoolhouse Road to the Mill Road. During the night they were removed to the south side of White Run three hundred yards from its junction with Rock Creek. These Hospitals cared for more than 2500 wounded. They were closed about August 6th 1863.

Medical Director 3rd Corps Surgeon Thomas Sim U.S. Volunteers

1st Division Surgeon J.W. Lyman 57th Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Division Assistant Surgeon J.T. Calhoun U.S. Army

Medical Officer in charge of the Corps Hospitals Surgeon Thaddeus Hildreth 3rd Maine Infantry.

Marker is on Sachs Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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