BALTIMORE, May 19. – The steamer Vanderbilt reached here this A. M. with about 500 sick soldiers from Yorktown. They are mostly typhoid and bilious fever, with but few wounded. All were distributed among the various hospitals here.
BALTIMORE, May 20. – The steamer State of Maine, with 461 sick soldiers, mostly convalescent, and able to travel homeward, arrived this morning. The men are mostly from New York and Massachusetts regiments.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4
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