the number one woman on that list is lydia smith. listirst woman on the because she represents a entire group of unnamed women that are often overlooked. there are pratt have hundreds of these women who left into the middle of this terrific ordeal and thought the battle as christian soldiers. not taking lives but saving them. the battle of gettysburg was a human catastrophe. a disaster on such a scale had never occurred to in previous major battles one of the armies would remain on the ground for some time. putting the troops to good use and bearing the dead setting up hospitals and cleaning up the place. now in this the most gruesome battle of the war both armies rapidly moved away. leaving behind 22,000 men too badly damaged to take care of themselves. every public building anything with a roof was packed wall-to-wall with them. thousands more wounded were left outside in the orchards and forms, today there are signs that the euphemistic label civil war hospital. feminine -- famine and disease were rampant. was one of the many who