A book called, A Surgeon with Stonewall Jackson, The Civil War Letters of Dr. Harvey Black, ed. by Glenn L. McMullen (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1995), page 55, shows a letter written by Dr. Black to his wife on 19 July 1863: " ... Ed [Peck} says he was close to Andrew Hoge when he was killed and that he had one of his legs cut off near his body by a shell." Andrew died at Gettysburg on the morning of 3 July 1863 in front of Culp's Hill by artillery fire from one of the Union 12th Corps batteries which were firing at the Confederates who were trying to turn the Union right flank. Poor Andrew must have died quickly from the shock and loss of blood. Many of his comrades made a charge that morning on the southern end of Culp's Hill and took shelter under a ledge where they could neither advance nor retreat and a great many were captured once the fighting subsided about noon. Andrew was not so lucky.