NF Camp Letterman

[CLoperfido]

So being inside for the last two weeks has got me thinking about the possibility of writing another book. What are some thoughts about the topic of Camp Letterman? Off the top of my head I don't know of any full blown works being written. Debating if I should start to look for material or not.

 

[hoosier]

Park Ranger Matt Atkinson, known to many who have done ranger walks at Gettysburg and other battlefields, wrote a very fine 28-page essay on the topic of Jonathan Letterman's career from Manassas to Camp Letterman. Roughly 20 pages of that are devoted to medical care related to the Battle of Gettysburg, so there's a lot there about the camp.

However, I'm not aware of any full blown books, based specifically on Camp Letterman, that have been written.

 

[Kurt G]

In the late Greg Coco's "A Strange and Blighted Land" he spends about 10 pages on Camp Letterman and references it several times throughout the book . There are several photos and a hand drawn map . He also spends about 10 pages covering it in his book "A Vast Sea of Misery."

 

[CLoperfido]

In the late Greg Coco's "A Strange and Blighted Land" he spends about 10 pages on Camp Letterman and references it several times throughout the book . There are several photos and a hand drawn map . He also spends about 10 pages covering it in his book "A Vast Sea of Misery."

Both of those works are excellent, I'm proud to have been able to call Greg a friend, I was fortunate to spend two summers working with him at GNMP and dedicated my book in his honor. I'd like to see about coming up with something more substantial but not sure if it would even be something the civil war community would be interested in.

 

[Kurt G]

Both of those works are excellent, I'm proud to have been able to call Greg a friend, I was fortunate to spend two summers working with him at GNMP and dedicated my book in his honor. I'd like to see about coming up with something more substantial but not sure if it would even be something the civil war community would be interested in.

I took a battlefield walk to the East Cavalry field many years ago which Greg did . He did an excellent job . Years later , after he had died, I was talking to a lady at a bookstore in Gettysburg who had known him and thought very highly of him . It sounds like he was highly respected . The books he did are an excellent resource .