
Benjamin Drummond - The First Patient
1868 Report of Medical Survey
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Copy of the "REPORT OF MEDICAL SURVEY" conducted on March 17, 1868,
confirming that Benjamin Drummond was was "disabled to the extent of one half
of a total disability" from his wound received on January 21, 1863, when he
was shot during the capture of the USS Morning Light by Confederate cutters
in the Gulf of Mexico near Sabine Pass, Texas.
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