GETTYSBURG SHEAFFER FARM HOSPITAL BLOOD-STAINED FLOORING SECTION & PAIN BULLET

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GETTYSBURG SHEAFFER FARM HOSPITAL BLOOD-STAINED FLOORING SECTION & PAIN BULLET:
$95.00

GETTYSBURG HOSPITAL SECTIONOF blood-STAINED FLOORING & PAIN BULLET. With Certificate of Authenticity and Documentation of our House. We Owned the Property Since 1983. The house was used as a hospital. Holes were drilled in the downstairs floor to sweep blood into the cellar. The bloodstains are still visible on the original wood floors.

Section of Floor Planking with Prominent blood-stains. From the Sheaffer Farmhouse, which was used as a Union Field Hospital during and after the Battle of Gettysburg, Alsoa dug pain chewedminie foundon the property.

Approx3 x 1/2 SmallPortion of Flooring has bloodstain spotson this smallsectionas shown in the photographs.

The DANIEL SHEAFFER FARM remains a prominent Gettysburg landmark. The original property was a 300+ acre landgrant from Wm. Penn, first surveyed in 1763, and referred to as \'Wolf\'s Walk\'. There was, at one time, an Indian camp on the property S.W. of where the house was later built. The house (the first brick house in Adams County) was built in approx. 1780-81. The original use of the house was as a tavern \'under the Sign of George Washington\' from 1808-1815. During this time the green in front of the house was used as a site of military musterings and drills. In the 1840\'s the house wasused as aplace for abolitionist meetings, and as a stop on the Underground Railway for slaves fleeing from neighboring Maryland, only a few miles away.

At the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, the property was owned by Daniel Sheaffer and his wife and consisted of the brick house, several outbuildings and a sawmill located on White Run Creek. Theland was occupied by a portion of the III and XII Corps, Army of the Potomac, with baggage trains resting in the fields. Gregg\'s Cavalry Division camped on the farm on July 2nd, and Reserve Artillery occupied the fields S.W. of the house. Nearly 3,000 Rebel prisoners, many taken during the famous \'Pickett\'s Charge\' were kept S.W. of the house, near the stream.

When the wounded began to arrive, the Sheaffers were asked to leave. The surgeons performed amputations on every available surface, and the piles of severed limbs grew outside. Holes were drilled in the planking of the floors on the downstairs level so that the blood could be washed into the cellar.

The most famous patient at the Sheaffer House Field Hospital was the controversial General Daniel Sickles. He had been wounded in the leg by a projectile, smashing the bone. In a later claim for damages, Mrs. Sheaffer recalled that \"on the second day of July 1863 Maj. Gen. Sickles was carried to the house in consequence of a wound which resulted in the amputation of a leg--he remained overnight. .\" Sickles himself wrote in 1882: \"In a moment I was removed from the ground to the field hospital. On the Baltimore Pike that night, in the gloaming, Dr. Calhoun cut off the useless limb.\" A young neighbor of the Sheaffers\' J. Howard Wert wrote that he \"saw the noble chieftain borne with shattered leg to the sombre brick house on the Baltimore Pike, at that time occupied by Daniel Sheaffer. .\" On one of his visits to the Battlefield in later times, the General was quoted as saying that he hadrequested champagne after the amputation. When that wasn\'t available, a bottle of wine was found in the baggage train. He wouldn\'t drink it warm, so it was put down the stone-lined well beside the house for an hour. Sickles drank the wine at one mouthful every five minutes, and passed the night. Sickles was later carried to the train and taken to Washington to complete his recovery.

The property was used as a Union Field Hospital for over two weeks. During that time the sawmill by the creek provided lumber for bunks and coffins for the III Corps. In 1868 Daniel Sheaffer put in a government claim for property damage due to the use of the property as a field hospital, stating the items taken or used by Federal troops included nearly 3000 fence rails, 2926 feet of board lumber, 80 bushels of wheat, 24 bushels of rye, 90 bushels of oats, 180 bushels of corn, 12 tons of hay, 50 lbs. of bacon, towels and table linen, 2 shirts, 2 pr. shoes, 4 pr. stockings, 1 pr. pants and 1 lot of poultry.

Daniel Sheaffer had also done his own gathering of items. A military telegram of July 19th, 1863 states that several Army items were discovered at \"Shaffer\'s, a Dutchman\" which included \"300 shirts and drawers, 50 blankets, 28 guns, some artillery harness and etc. They were secreted in a well dug under the houseand in four large sinks filled with water. The guns were hid under piles of board along his fence and in the garrett. Every care seemed to have been taken to provent detection. I worked the Dutchman hard fixing up & loading the property that is not sufficient punishment. What shall I do with him?\"

Since 1983 the property has been owned by John & BettyPannick. During a remodel of an upstairs room, the stained planking was discovered. It was hardly a surprise as several other rooms in the house bear bloodstains on the flooring, and a room on the lower level adjacent to the kitchen still has the small round hole bored in a plank to sweep the water and blood into the cellar. There is also a disruption in the brickwork on the N.E. corner of the house where it was struck by a shell, and scorching of the beams in the attic from another artillery strike. The house remains as it did during the time of the Battle, a silent witness to the turning of the tide of the Civil War.

This planking, stained with the blood of heroes,is one of the most unique relics of the Battle of Gettysburg you are likely to come across.

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