Michael Fiscel Farm

[RayDoolittle]

First post on the forum -- I recently found out that many of the wounded or mortally wounded from the regiment that formed up in my hometown -- the 105th PA -- were treated and/or buried at the Michael Fiscel farm -- now a golf course.

If anyone has any information on the treatment of wounded at the Fiscel farm, I would love to know about it. I have read Coco's books and also "Grappling with Death" which focuses on the neighboring Schwartz farm, but I am hoping there are other diary accounts or memoirs that I haven't come across yet.

Many thanks!
Ray

 

[Wallyfish]

Frank Marrone has posted several YouTube videos on the Michael Fiscel Farm. These are general videos and may not go into the detail you are looking for. It is worth seeing. Go to YouTube to see his other videos on the Fiscel Farm.

Welcome from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

 

[captaindrew]

Welcome Ray, from South Florida and the Reenactors Forum

 

[Scott Brown]

Licensed Battlefield Guide Britt Isenberg wrote a book on the Wildcat regiment. I don't think he's a member on here, but I'll pass along your question.

 

[donna]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[RayDoolittle]

Licensed Battlefield Guide Britt Isenberg wrote a book on the Wildcat regiment. I don't think he's a member on here, but I'll pass along your question. --

I've met Britt and done a tour with him specifically on the 105th at the Sherfy Farm. We didn't get into the Fiscel farm but it is possible that he came across something! THANKS!

 

[Scott Brown]

Ray,
Britt's email is [email protected]. He will gladly field any questions you may have.

 

[Scott Brown]

P.S. I've been on that tour also. It's a good one.

 

[Andy Cardinal]

Welcome from northeast Ohio and the First Bull Run/Manassas Forum!

 

[Tom Elmore]

Nurse Isabella M. Fogg cared for the wounded of the Fifth Corps, including a Captain "B." and 19 others from the 20th Maine. This was probably Captain Charles W. Billings of Company C, 20th Maine, who died on July 15 at the Michael Fiscel farm, which places Fogg at the Fiscel farm:

Isabella M. Fogg: 5th Corps Nurse Reports on Aftermath of Gettysburg | Medical Care

"I want you to write to my mother and tell her that I die for my country and if I had another life to live I would freely give it." ....On consulting Dr. Letterman I thought it advisable to continue my services to the 5th corps, as our men there, had suffered severely, and I learned that there...

civilwartalk.com

Coco's Vast Sea of Misery describes Augustus Milton Clark, Acting Surgeon in Chief of 1st Division, Fifth Corps, who was posted at the Michael Fiscel farm until 3 August, when the remaining patients were transferred to Camp Letterman. Clark is mentioned by Cyrus Bacon in his diary for July 12 as being "in charge of the [Fifth] Corps hospital," and again on July 26, when Bacon notes that Clark returned from New York with his wife, thus Clark was absent for a time - perhaps just a few days.

 

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