From the Richmond Examiner, 5/23/1864
WOUNDED YANKEE OFFICERS. - The following named Yankee
officers, wounded and prisoners, were admitted to the Libby prison hospital
yesterday and Saturday: Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Fairbanks, One Hundred and
Forty-eighth Pennsylvania; Captain L. Van Blarcom, Fifteenth New Jersey; Captain
B. F. Estelle, Fifth Michigan cavalry; First Lieutenant Charles Horne,
Thirteenth Indiana; First Lieutenant T. K. Edkins, Third New Jersey; First
Lieutenant Herman Hake, Fifty-second New York.
The number of commissioned officers held at the Libby
yesterday was eighty five, with four surgeons, who are doing duty in the
hospital.
Second Lieutenant J. H. French, One Hundredth New York,
died in the hospital after amputation of a leg.
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