2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
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Soft Cover Book, "At Gettysburg What A Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle", by Mrs. Tillie (Pierce) Aleman, 1889, 118 pp., minor owner pencil IDs, VG. A firsthand account of the Gettysburg Battle. Matilda "Tillie" Pierce was only 14 at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, yet her writings of those dramatic three days would make her famous. Born on March 11, 1848, Tillie witnessed much of the first day of battle from her home at the corner of Baltimore and Breckinridge Streets. Later that same day, at the urging of her parents, Tillie left town with her neighbor, Hettie Schriver, for the Weikert farm on Taneytown Road. They could not have known that they had walked into the heart of the next two days of fighting within a few hundred yards of Little Round Top. Tillie served as a volunteer nurse at the Weikert Farm and returned home to minister to five wounded men in her own home. In August, Tillie went to Camp Letterman, where she volunteered as a nurse until November.
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