"Tell Mother Not to Worry"

“Those interested in the [battle's] long-term impact on soldiers and their families will find this exemplary volume informative, powerful, and noteworthy.” —The Civil War Monitor

The George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. At the field hospitals there, nurses held the hands of dying soldiers and prayed and spoke last words with them. Heroic surgeons resolutely worked around the clock to save lives. Author Ronald D. Kirkwood’s bestselling Too Much for Human Endurance: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg established the military and medical importance of the Spangler farm and hospitals.

For his eagerly awaited sequel Tell Mother Not to Worry, Kirkwood researched thousands of pensions and military records, hospital files, letters, newspapers, and diaries of those present at the hospitals on Spangler land during and after the battle and profiles scores of soldiers, offering new information on events and experiences at the farm, Kirkwood concludes by continuing the story of George and Elizabeth Spangler and their four children after the war and ends with an uplifting chapter on their modern-day descendants and how they were found after the release of Too Much for Human Endurance.

Kirkwood’s sequel increases the understanding of the lives of the soldiers and their families and adds depth to the story of George and Elizabeth Spangler’s farm.

“Brilliantly researched and well-written.” —Emerging Civil War