Greet Greg the Gardener

For eight years Museum volunteer and retired critical care pharmacist, Greg Susla, has worked to plant, care for, and expand a 19th century medicinal herb garden on the grounds of the Pry House Field Hospital Museum on Antietam National Battlefield. Boasting over 35 different herbal varieties, the garden is representative of plants that would have been grown during the period in the Mid-Atlantic region. You can meet Dr. Susla and watch him maintain the garden, hear about future plans, and learn more about Civil War medical care. In addition to the medicinal herb garden, visitors can tour the grounds of the Pry House which include a barn which was used as a field hospital after the Battle of Antietam – treating about 500 patients.