The following is a copy of the parole signed by the surgeons who were permitted to leave
do make an unqualified parole of honor that we will not, unless released or exchanged, by arms, information or otherwise, during the existing hostilities between the
, or any of them, in any form or manner whatever.
report of the surgeons. New York, August 16, 1861.
Colonel George Lyons, Commanding 8th Regiment, N. Y. S. M.:--
sir: I beg leave to submit the following report.
When our forces retreated, after the action of the 21st July, several surgeons, myself among the number, deemed it our duty to remain with the wounded, of whom there were about 300 in and about Sudley Church, the place assigned us for a hospital.
About half an hour after our forces moved off the field, the church was surrounded by a troop of cavalry from
Colonel Stuart's First Virginia regiment, and we were all, both wounded and surgeons, made prisoners-of-war.
We were allowed, however, to remain at our duty till the next afternoon, (Monday,) when all the surgeons were taken in ambulances to
Manassas, kept all night, and the next day a parole offered us, and our accepting it was made a condition to our being allowed to return to the wounded at Sudley Church.
Those who chose to take the parole, myself among the number, were sent immediately back, and remained at that hospital for twelve days, doing our best to relieve the sufferings of our wounded men. At the expiration of that time, they were removed to
Richmond, and we followed them; and as our services, though pressed upon the authorities there, were no longer required, we were sent home via
Norfolk and
Fortress Monroe.
As far as my observation has gone, our wounded have been treated with kindness, and have been made as comfortable as circumstances would allow.
Assistant-surgeons DeGraw and
Winston, of our regiment, have returned with me, and have been efficient and unwearied in the discharge of their duty.
Below I inclose a list of the members of our regiment wounded and prisoners, now in the hands of the enemy at
Richmond:
wounded:
Private O. H. Swift, Company A, fractured arm, doing well;
Private Venables, Company B, fractured arm, doing well;
Private Clune, Company G, fractured thigh, doing well;
Private Denny, Company D, fleshwound of arm, well;
Private Whitehouse,-----, flesh-wound of leg, well.
prisoners:
Captain Griffin, Company E;
Color-sergeant,------;
Private Pinto, Company B;
Private Danielson, Company B;
Private Greene, Company F;
Private Simms, Company G;
Private Bleny, Company E.
Respectfully,
