1              Bucks County Intelligencer, Sick and Wounded Soldiers.  June 17, 1862  Page 3  Col. 1              1

 

Sick and Wounded Soldiers.—Lieutenant Mahlon

Yardley of Company K, 104th Regiment, reached home in

the care of E. G. Harrison, Esq., of Middletown, on the

evening of Tuesday last.  He has been very ill for several

weeks past, and though entirely unfit for military duty,

he persisted in remaining with his company until after

the battle of the 31st ?.  When the men were ordered

out on that day, he was too weak to accompany them to

the field, but when they were driven back the over-

powering force of the rebels, he joined them and helped

to rally our troops in the rifle pits.  The exertions he then

made were entirely too much for his strength, and ex-

hausted and helpless, he was conveyed to the hospital at

Savage’s Station.  He managed to get the Surgeon’s certi-

ficate to enable him to come home, but could not obtain as-

sistance in procuring the necessary leave from higher offi-

cers until Lieutenant Artman, of Company D, kindly took

his case in hand.  At this juncture, Mr. Harrison and Dr.

Smith made their appearance, and took him in charge.—A

Lieutenant Yardley now lies very ill with typhoid fever at

his residence in Doylestown.  He is reduced literally to

skin and bone, but with careful treatment it is hoped that

he will eventually recover.

Colonel Davis, of the 104th is still at his home in Doy-

lestown, under the care of Dr. McCoy.  His arm is yet

painful but is improving, the bullet remaining in the

wound.  He expects to return to the regiment in a few

days.  Lieutenant-Colonel Nields, who was absent for two

or three weeks on sick leave, started to rejoin the regi-

ment on last Tuesday morning.  He was accompanied by

Robert J. Armstrong, who has been appointed clerk to

Commissary Robert Holmes.  Quartermaster James D.

Hendrie, who sustained a severe wound in the arm at the

battle of Fair Oaks, lies at the residence of his father, Dr.

W.S. Hendrie.  His wound is slowly improving, but from

its nature of a long time must elapse before he can regain

the use of the injured limb.  Captain Corcoran remains at

the house of John Kessler, in Philadelphia, where he re-

ceives every possible attention.  His wound is so serious

that his recovery must necessarily be slow.  Captain

Swartzlander, who received three wounds, of a very pain-

ful character, is at St. Joseph’s hospital, in Philadelphia. 

We learn that he is getting along very well.  Captain

Orem, of Company B, has been staying at the house of his

father in Washington, since his arrival.  He was disabled

by a wound in the left foot, but is now recovering, and

will rejoin his company as soon as he can.

Color Sergeant James L. Slack, of Company C, 104th

Regiment, who was shot through the lung at the battle of

Fair Oaks, has since been lying in the hospital at New-

port’s News.  His friends in Northampton township having

received notice of this fact, his brother started yesterday

to see him, and bring him home if possible.

Corporal Isaac Torbert, of Company C, badly wounded

in the recent battle battle, died in the Government hospital at

Governor’s Island, in New York harbor, a few days since. 

He has been conveyed to that place by one of the steamers

employed to bring the sick and wounded soldiers back to

the North.  His funeral took place from the residence of

his family, in Northampton yesterday.

Amos S. Worthington, of Northampton, in company with

his nephew, proceeded to Newport’s News last week, for

the purpose of bringing home his son, S. Curtis Worthing-

ton, a member of Company F, 104th Regiment.  Corporal

Worthington has been sick in the hospital for about a

month, and of course was unfit for duty at the time of the

battle.  He was brought home by his father, arriving

there on Friday last.  Amos reports that several others of

the 104th are at Newport’s News and in the vicinity.  He

thinks that there is a good deed of incompetency and

carelessness among the surgeons employed by the Govern-

ment.

Charles F. Toy, of Company F, 104th Regiment, and

Addiphus H. Palmer, of Company I, both wounded at the

battle of Fair Oaks, arrived at Philadelphia on the steam-

er Lousiana, on Thursday last.  The Louisiana brought

five or six hundred sick and wounded soldiers.

Joseph Heist, a member of Company D, 104th Regiment,

died of Typhoid fever, near the camp in Virginia, last

week.  He belonged near Quakertown, and was about 21

years of age.

Among the wounded soldiers taken prisoners by the

rebels at the battle of Fair Oaks, was Sergeant William

L. Erwin, of Company G, 104th Regiment, son of Scott A.

Erwin, Esq., of Bridgeton.  Sergeant Erwin, with a num-

ber of other wounded prisoners, at last accounts was in a

hospital in Richmond.

Algeron S. Cadwallader, of Lower Makefield, and

Richard Watson, of Doylestown, started last week to hunt

up the Bucks county soldiers at the seat of war, and see

what could be done for the relief of the sick and wound-

ed.  They left Baltimore in the boat for Fortress Monroe

on Saturday evening.  While in Baltimore Mr. Cadwal-

lader visited the different hospitals, where he found the

arrangements very good, and the patients well cared for

and comfortable.  He has forwarded the following list of

Bucks county soldiers now there—all of the 104th Regi-

ment:

Sick soldiers at the Patterson Park Hospital, Baltimore.—

Henry Kemmere, Company D; Elias Cops, Company D; G. S.

Jackson, Company H; Benjamin Gilbert, Company K; G. C.

Geary, Company D; Jackson Heath, Company I; Thomas Cos-

ner, Company G; Oliver Beam, Company E; C. Secnendiker,

Company E; R. H. Krusen, Company F.  They mostly have had

typhoid fever, and are now generally convalescent.

National Hospital, Baltimore.--B. F. Street, Company K, ty-

phoid fever; William H. Staleup, Company A, typhoid fever ;

Joshua Spearing; Company F, debility ; Harrison Brecht, Com-

pany E, consumption.  Deaths—May 30, Joseph Gilligan, Com-

pany H ; Henry Dilgart, Company D.