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Satterlee General Hospital

Satterlee General Hospital opened 19 June 1862 in the area of 44th St. & Baltimore Ave. This hospital first accommodated soldiers wounded at the battles of Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Satterlee surgeons and nurses later treated Union and Confederate soldiers wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1–3 July 1863. 

1864
Attribution/Credit

Charles Magnus, lithographer, Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections