1                     Bucks County Intelligencer,  Col. Davis Wounded.  July 19, 1864  Page 3  Col. 1                     1

 

Col. Davis Wounded.—A letter from Maj. Edward L.

Rogers, of the 104th Regiment, to his wife, brings the intel-

ligence that Col. W. W. H. Davis was severely wounded in

the hand by the explosion of a shell on John’s Island, near

Charleston, on the 8th of July.  Col. Davis commanded a

brigade in the expedition undertaken by General Foster

against the Rebel fortifications on James’s Island, from which

he returned safely.  The wound appears to have been re-

ceived subsequently—probably from a random shot.  His

right hand was severely injured, two of the fingers being

entirely torn off, and the forefinger and thumb being also

much hurt  Col. Davis proceeded to Hilton Head to have

his wound dressed, and it is probable that he will come North

by the next steamer.  A notice of his wound appeared in the

New York Times of Friday last; but no particulars were

given.  There is a report of the loss of over one hundred

men of the 104th Regiment, but we do not now see how such

an event could have occurred, as it is not mentioned in any

of the newspaper correspondence from Hilton Head.

We learn with regret that Surgeon William T. Robinson,

of the 104th, was captured by the Rebels while engaged with

some cavalry in reconnoitering on James Island.  Surgeon

Robinson is a valuable officer, and his loss will be sensibly

felt.  We believe that his wife, a resident of Bucks County,

was at Hilton Head at the time of his capture.