Fantastic Gettysburg Relic

Cannon ball display centers on this ID’s ball with period lettering, “C.S. 12 pndr, 2 Corps Hospital Gettysburg, PA.” That ball is affixed to 10” base which also display bullets, dug pistol frame. During the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the Union II Corps field hospital was primarily set up at the Jacob Schwartz Farm, located about three miles south of Gettysburg, with division elements also using the Granite Schoolhouse and areas near Rock Creek. The site treated over 3,100 wounded Union and CSA soldiers.