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Casualties in the Armstrong Rifles [Antietam].

The following is a list of the casualties in Co. A, 8th Reserves, under command of Lieut. M’Candless:

Killed: Robert Bruce Truby.

Wounded: Lieut. P. Murray, in thigh, badly; Lieut. S. M’Candless, in shoulder, severely; Corp. A. J. Elliott, through both thighs, badly; Martin V. Burdett, in back, badly; Jacob Bollinger, in leg, slightly; J. McPherson, in shoulder, slightly; Jeff. Reynolds, through shoulder, badly.

Missing: William L. DeHaven, Robert L. Duncan, and James Bell.

[Pittsburgh Gazette: September 27, 1862].

Letter from Camp Washington.
[Correspondence of The Press.]

Camp Washington, Easton,
June 25, 1861.

I suppose you are already acquainted with the result of the military election recently held here, and as rumors have got abroad that Col. De Korponay was prevented from receiving a command by unfair means, it is my duty to correct them. General McCall, previously to the election, stated that if any ten companis voluntarily formed themselves into a regiment, teir organization would be recognized, otherwise they would be formed into regiments according to the date of their arrival on the ground. Up to the time of the election, no ten companies associated themselves, and on that day three regiments were formed, the election resulting in the choice of Colonels Mann, March, and Sickels. Col. De Korponay took five companies to Easton, of which four are under Mann, and the other under March. Col. De Korponay exonerates Gen. McCall and his brother officers from all unfair maneuvering.

Sgt. Oren M. Stebbins,
Co. A, Bucktails,
June 16, 1862 [Wellsboro Agitator: 6-25-1862].

Near the Chickahominy.

Friend Agitator: The first and third brigades of the reserve corps are now within twelve miles of Richmond. The third landed at White House yesterday and will be here this afternoon; we shall then advance to the main army in front of the Capital.

Sgt. Oren M. Stebbins,
Co. A, Bucktails,
May 27, 1862 [Wellsboro Agitator: 6-4-1862].

Fredericksburg, Va.

Friend Agitator: This army is now on the south side of the Rappahannock. Our division came over yesterday and encamped in a fine oak grove on the farm of a rank rebel; there is not a drop of loyal blood in his veins. He even refused to sell or give one cent’s worth of anything to the “d____d Yankees,” and did his best to prohibit us from getting water from his springs. Such men are respected and their property guarded. This is the hardest pill we have taken, to respect a man and guard his property when he would plunge the dagger to our hearts if he had a chance; but they say we must win them back with kindness, which is a part of war I don’t believe in, and it is the opinion of thousands in the army, to-day, that this rebellion will never be entirely blotted out until more stringent rules are put into operation.

Ligation of the Femoral Artery. In a previous portion of this section, commencing at page 16, reference is made to sixty-two ligations of the femoral artery for direct shot injury of the vessel, with the large mortality of 72.6 per cent. An interesting example of a well-managed successful case is adduced, and the great importance of ligating the distal as well as proximal extremities of the vessel is urgently enjoined. In addition to these sixty-two cases there were sixty-five instances in which the femoral artery was tied for consecutive bleeding unattended by primary injury to the vessel. The hundred and twenty-seven examples are enumerated in the summary entitled TABLE III. This series presents the same grave mortality as when the cases of direct lesion of the vessels were separately considered. References to publications of detailed cases are given; a few abstracts will be presented of cases which furnished pathological material for the Museum:

CASE 99. Lieutenant R. W. Smith, Co. I [Co. G], 5th Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, was wounded at the battle of Bull Run, Virginia, August 30, 1862, in the right thigh. He was conveyed to Alexandria in a rough wagon, and thence brought to Washington, and admitted to Douglas Hospital, September 5, 1862, with a circumscribed false aneurism of the femoral artery. The vessel was ligated in the continuity on September 7th. Secondary hemorrhage followed, and the patient died September 8, 1862. At the autopsy it was ascertained that the hemorrhage had been temporarily restrained by the direction of the wound and coagula in the large aneurismal sac. Recurrent hemorrhage had led to the fatal result. The preparation is well represented in the accompanying wood-cut (FlG. 20) reduced to one-half.1

1. 1. Source: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, (1861-1865), Volume 3, Chapter X, pg. 44 & 46.