1         Bucks County Intelligencer,  From the Ringgold Regiment.  February 25, 1862  Page 3  Col. 1         1

 

From the Ringgold Regiment.—Last week Lieuten-

ant James M. Carver, of Company C, and Lieutenant

Mahlon Yardley, of Company K, of the 104th Regiment,

arrived in Doylestown on brief visits to their families and

friends.  It was their first visit home since the departure

of the regiment for Washington, in October last.  They

were heartily welcomed by their numerous friends in this

community.  Both of them are in good health, and look

as well and hearty as they ever did.  As it was expected,

a week ago, that the regiment would soon be forwarded

to Kentucky, they availed themselves of the opportunity

of paying a brief visit home before starting on their jour-

ney.  The officers and men of the regiment were gener-

ally well pleased at the prospect of being sent westward,

much preferring that to being placed on duty across the

Potomac.  It was understood that the whole brigade

quartered at Carver’s Barracks would go together under

the Command of Colonel Ewing, a West Point officer, as

brigadier.  The recent great Union victories in the West,

however, have so changed the aspect of affairs in that

quarter that it is not now probable that any re-inforce-

ments will be sent from the army around Washington. 

The arrangements made with the railroad companies for

transporting large bodies of troops have, it is said, been

countermanded by the War Department.  A few days

since, a detachment of one soldier from each of the com-

panies in the brigade, making 42 in all, was detailed to

go west to serve on the gunboats under Commodore Foote. 

Lieutenants Kephart and Groff, of the 104th Regiment,

were selected to take charge of the men, and conduct

them to their destination.  When the order came for the

selection of the men, it was decided to take such as should

volunteer for the service.  About three fourths of all the

men in the regiment stepped forward as candidates for the

trip, and the officers were obliged to designate who should

go.  Sergeant Darling, of Company B, was so anxious to

be one of the number that he, resigned his rank in order

that he might join the detachment.  The men taken from

the regiment were the following:

Co. A, James Brierly. Co B, Edmund S. Darling. Co. C, Thomas J. Wynkoop. Co. D, Robert Smith. Co. E, Adam Tomah.

Co. F, Mathias Saylor. Co. G, William Garner. Co. H, Nathaniel Gay. Co. I, Richard Hogeland. Co.K, William Hawk.

The news of the capture of Fort Donelson and the sur-

reader of the rebel army therein was received at the camp

on Monday afternoon.  Immediately, the whole encamp-

ment was in an uproar of rejoicing and enthusiasm.  In-

numerable blank cartridges were fired off by the men,

and the battery of field-pieces belonging to the New

York 56th was brought out and a salute of twenty-one

guns poured forth in honor of the gallant soldiers of the

West.  In the evening the whole camp was illuminated

with candles at the windows of the barracks, and the

Maine men and a torchlight procession around the quar-

ters of the brigade.  Speeches were made by several of the

officers, and all gave themselves up to the full enjoyment

of the occasion.