Copy of the 1872 "Brief of Claim" for a pension based on his "Wound of the left leg in an engagement with 2 rebel cutter boats, January 21, 1863" during the Civil War. This is a digital copy of the original record held by the National Archives.
WAR OF 1861
ACT JULY 14, 1862
Brief of Claim to Original INVALID PENSION
In the case of Benjamin H Drummond, an Ordinary
Seaman U.S.S. Morning Light
POST OFFICE ADDRESS
(Illegible)
Enlisted November 4, 1861. Discharged November 11, 1864.
Served afterward from December 6, 1864, to March 23, 1868
In U.S. Navy
Declaration and identification in due form, filed July 16, 1872
ALLEGES DISABILITY FROM Wound of the left leg,
In an engagement with 2 rebel cutter
Boats January 21, 1863, while attached
To the Morning Light. Filed July 16, ‘72
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting
States “enlisted at New Bedford, Mass.
Nov. 4, 1861, as O’Seaman for three
Years, Reenlisted Dec. 6, 1864, as O’
Seaman for three years. Filed Aug. 17, ‘72
It appears from Certificates of Discharge
That he was discharged, Nov. 11, 1864,
And March 23, 1868.
Report of Medical Survey, U.S. Naval
Hospital, Washington D.C. March 17, 1868,
States “Gunshot wound of left leg. In
The line of duty, as will appear from
Ticket of admission as follows:
Admitted June 27, 1866, from Annapolis,
With gun shot wound of left leg,
Received at the capture of the Morning
Light, Jany. 1863, off the coast of Texas.
Injury was received in line of duty. File June 26, 6(?)
Admitted August 19, 1872, to a pension of $4 per month.
From July 16, 1876
Disability Disabled from Gun shot wound
of left leg
E. B. Jackson
Philadelphia, Pa
J.W. Dalton, Ex’r.
Fee $20
per contract.
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