1              Bucks County Intelligencer, 104th Promotions  January 21, 1862  Page 3  Col. 2              1

 

Among the promotions and appointments in the Ring-

gold or 104th Regiment, we have heard of the following :

Lieutenant Mahlon Yardley has been appointed by Gen-

eral Casey to serve as Judge Advocate of a General court

Martial for that Division.  Sergeant Levi H. Markley, of

Company D, Capt. Swartzlander, has been promoted to

the post of Second Lieutenant in the same company—

Lieutenant Enos R. Artman having been made First

Lieutenant in place of Lieut. Richard Roberts, who has

resigned his commission and joined a regiment down the

Potomac.  Lieutenant John McCoy, of Company B, has

been appointed forage master by Col. Davis, commanding

the brigade.  Thomas P. Chambers, Quartermaster Ser-

geant of the regiment, who has been sick for several

weeks, is now nearly recovered and ready to resume his

duties.

Four men recruited in Doylestown by Capt. Harvey,

for the 104th Regiment, now in camp at Washington, re-

turned home on Friday, having been unable to pass the

necessary surgical examination before entering the ranks. 

These men have been transported to Washington and back,

and each furnished with a good new uniform at the pub-

lic expense, at a cost to the Government of from thirty to

forty dollars apiece.  Considering the fact that the public

treasury is now kept drained to the utmost by the neces-

sary demands of the war, it seems to us that this is a leak

that ought to be stopped.  No man should be equipped

and sent to Washington who is not fully qualified to per-

form his duty.