Gettysburg Stone in Clark Park

This stone from the battle-field of Gettysburg is placed by 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 ministered from June 9, 1862 to August 3, 1865 to more than twenty thousand sick and wounded soldiers of the Civil War.