Home, Headquarters, Hospital

Home, Headquarters, Hospital. . General Johnson's occupation of the Lady Farm was very peaceable. Though little is known about his time here, it is known that the Lady family was still in the house while the officers conducted their business. There are also two accounts that place General Robert E. Lee at the farm on July 2nd; one from Daniel and Rebecca's daughter Sarah, and the other from Dr. J.W.C. O'Neal, Gettysburg physician who spent some. time assisting Confederate officers. It wasn't until the afternoon of July 2nd that any danger came to the family. When Major Latimer's Confederate Artillery on nearby Benner's Hill began firing at Union troops positioned on Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill, some of the return fire overshot its target and landed here on the property. According to Daniel Lady's 1868 Damage Claim, to avoid A,11 the danger consequent upon the shelling, the family was obliged to leave the premises." Where they fled remains unknown., In the family's absence, the wounded men from Latimer's Artillery and Johnson's Infantry were brought here; officers were treated in the house while enlisted men were treated in the barn. Johnson's Division took possession of nine different farms for use as hospitals. With the Lady Farm's proximity to the fighting, it provided the first medical attention these men would receive.t Those well enough to be moved were taken out the Natural Springs Road (which crossed the Lady property) to the York Pike where Johnson's other hospitals were located. The more seriously wounded were treated and kept at the Lady Farm., Daniel went on to claim "various articles of personal property or carried off...the buildings were used for hospital purposes. Upon the return of the family on Saturday (July 4th) wounded soldiers were in the house and dead bodies were lying around which we were obliged to bury." Christian and Susan Benner, nearby neighbors of the Lads, stopped by, July 4th and recounted seeing"...no kinds of provisions left, and no carpets, except, a one covered in blood...", In 1868, Daniel filed for $1,461.97 worth of damages and, in 1879, he received $1,257.97 from the government, the equivalent of $38,797.93 in 2024., (caption) The damage claim filed by Daniel Lady in 1868.