UNIVERSITY CITY GETTYSBURG MEMORIAL STONE PLAQUE

This stone from the battle-field of Gettysburg is placed by the Citizens of the neighborhood in the year 1916, to mark the nearby site of the West Philadelphia General Hospital of the United States Army — later designated the Satterlee General Hospital in honor of Brigadier-General Richard Smith Satterlee, U.S.A. A noted surgeon — and also to commemorate the services of the patriotic men and women who as volunteer physicians, nurses and co-workers under general Isaac I. Hayes, Surgeon-in-Chief, here administered from June 9, 1862 to August 3, 1865 to more than twenty thousand sick and wounded soldiers of the Civil War.

SEE ALSO-UNIVERSITY CITY GETTYSBURG MEMORIAL STONE