Gettysburg Picnic Truce.

The article focuses on a sprawling hospital village of tents called Camp Letterman during the American Civil War. It informs that the camp housed more than 1,600 badly wounded Union and Confederate soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It is stated that to cheer up everyone in the encampment, a camp picnic was organized, but it ended in disaster. It is stated that some days later, a banquet was organized which served delicacies rarely seen on the hospital menus.