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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



times, once having a severe fight with him 

 at Paris, Kentucky, in July, 1862, and driv- 

 ing him through Winchester and Crab 

 Orchard to and beyond Somerset, where, 

 his band, having dispersed, the regiment re- 

 turned to Danville, Kentucky, and thence 

 to Lebanon, where it went into camp. 

 Here the band was discharged from the 

 United States service in compliance with 

 an act of congress discharging all regiment- 

 al bands,' and allowing only one band to 

 a brgade. The leader having accepted 

 a position as lieutenant of a company, Dr. 

 Dana took the band to Louisville and made 

 out their discharge and pay rolls to August 

 18, 1862, secured their pay, and all returned 

 home to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Most 

 of the band enlisted into regiments that 

 found their way into the army , of the 

 Potomac. After having been at home for 

 six days, their was a call for surgeons to 

 fill vacancies in Pennsylvania regiments. 

 Mr. Dana answered the call, went to Har- 

 risburg, was examined, and, answering to 

 an emergency call for fifty surgeons to go 

 at once to the field, he was assigned as 

 assistant surgeon, September 12. 1862 to 

 the One Hundred and Seventh Regiment, 

 Pennsylvania Infantry, already at the front. 

 Taking the first train to Baltimore that 

 got through to that coity after the enemy 

 had destroyed several bridges on the line, 

 he joined his regiment on the field about 

 noon during the battle of Antietam. From 

 that time he was with the One Hundred and 

 Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, First Bri- 

 gade. Second Division, First Army Corps, 

 on the field, in every engagement, including 

 Gettysburg, where his horse was killed by 

 the enemy the afternoon of the first day's 

 fight, while attempting to reach Cemetery 

 Hill through the town. He then being sur- 

 rounded by the enemy, reported for duty 

 to the Division Hospital in the Lutheran 

 church which was close by. Here all 

 hands were regarded as prisoners, and their 

 names taken, and without any questions 

 they were considered paroled. The enemy 

 having failed, early July 4 left the town, 

 also the surgeons, who soon reported to 

 their respective places. The engagements 

 are a matter of general history and need 

 not be repeated here. March 4, 1864, the 

 One Hundred and Seventh re-enlisted while 

 at Michell's station, below Culpeper, Vir- 

 ginia, and in April was sent home on 

 veteran furlough of thirty days, thereby 

 •escaping the second Wilderness fight under 

 General Grant, but returned just in time 

 for the Spottsylvania affair. The First 

 Army Corps being now consolidated with 

 the Fifth Corps, the regiment followed its 

 fortunes to Cold Harbor, White Oak 

 Swamp, etc., to below Petersburg, where 

 the regiment aided in building Fort War- 

 ren, on the Jerusalem Plankroad. the cap- 

 ture of the Weldon railroad and built on 

 it Fort Wadsworth ; helped destroy the 

 same railroad to Bellefield, near the North 

 Carolina line: were at the battle of Five 

 Forks with Sheridan's command ; and aided 



in the final wind up at Appomattox. About 

 this time Dr. Dana vvas promoted to sur- 

 geon, April 27, 1865, with the rank of 

 Major by the request of the Colonel of the 

 One Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania 

 Regiment (Colonel McCoy). Johnson hav- 

 ing surrendered to Sherman in North Car- 

 olina, the regiment was marched via Peters- 

 burg and Richmond, to Ball's cross roads, 

 opposite Washington ; participated in the 

 grand review ; was transported to Harris- 

 burg by rail, paid off, disbanded, and sent 

 home. 



Dr. Dana, having reached home, went 

 to the Jefferson College again, attending 

 the lectures for three months. Then, his 

 father having purchased the place near 

 Morrisville where he now lives he settled 

 in Morrisville, June i, 1866, purchasing the 

 store now owned by E. D. Titus, and the 

 house now owned by Isha V. Smith in 

 March, 1867, and practiced extensively 

 throughout the surrounding country, both 

 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He was 

 one of the original founders of the Mercer 

 County Medical Society in New Jersey, in 

 1868, one of the original founders of the 

 Morrisville Rubber Company, incorporated 

 in 1872, and treasurer of the company seven 

 years, until the factory was rented. The 

 last year before renting it he was also its 

 general superintendent, making all of the 

 formulas for the compounding of the mate- 

 rial, etc., and looking after the business in 

 all of its branches. He was one of the 

 trustees and also treasurer of the Morris- 

 ville Presbyterian church from 1867 to 

 1878; member of Morrisville council, 1868- 

 1873 ; member of the school board and pres- 

 ident of the board 1868 to 1875 ; medical 

 examiner for three insurance companies, 

 1872 to 1875 ; member of the Jefferson Med- 

 ical College Alumni Association ; the soci- 

 ety of the Army of the Potomac; the Grand 

 Army of the Republic, and the Bucks 

 County Historical Society (Pennsylvania). 

 He was chairman of the executive com- 

 mittee and Marshal of the day at the Cen- 

 tennial anniversary of incorporation of the 

 borough of Morrisville, which was cele- 

 brated May 24, 1904; surgeon of Post 23, 

 G. A. R. of Trenton, New Jersey ; special 

 aide on the staff of the Commander-in- 

 chief, G. A. R., in charge of military and 

 patriotic instructions in the public schools 

 of New Jersey. He is something of a 

 mechanical genius, having constructed a 

 plumb level ; a churn which he has had 

 in use for eight or ten years, of peculiar 

 construction ; and a combination surveyor's 

 instrument, besides other articles. His liter- 

 ary productions include several historical 

 papers of local interest, one of which was 

 read at the meeting of the Bucks County 

 Historical Society, held May 24. 1903. in 

 Morrisville, Pennsylvania. He is also a 

 member and one of the stockholders of the 

 Fallsington Library Company of Fallsing- 

 tnn, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was also 

 chairman of the committee appointed to 

 arrange for a centennial (;elebration of its 



