| Camp Letterman eponym: Dr Jonathan Letterman | |
|---|---|
| Part of Army Medical Service | |
| George Wolf farm east of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, near the York Pike | |
 Camp Letterman, August 1863 | |
| Type | Union Army field hospital |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1863 |
| In use | 1863 |
- Not the Letterman Army Hospital of the Presidio of San Francisco
Camp Letterman was an American Civil War military hospital, which was erected near the Gettysburg Battlefield to treat more than 14,000 Union and 6,800 Confederate wounded of the Battle of Gettysburg at the beginning of July 1863.[1][2]
- ^ Musto, R. J (July 2007). "The Treatment of the Wounded at Gettysburg: Jonathan Letterman: The Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine". Gettysburg Magazine (37): 125.
- ^ Atkinson, Matthew. "'War is a hellish way of settling a dispute": Dr. Jonathan Letterman and the Tortuous Path of Medical Care from Manassas to Camp Letterman," pp. 101-113, in "Gettysburg Seminars 2010." Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Park Service and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Gettysburg National Military Park, 2010.