Benjamin Drummond - The First Patient

Declaration for Invalid Pension

On July 15, 1872, Benjamin Drummond filed this Declaration for Invalid Pension. It states that on January 21, 1863, while aboard the USS Morning Light off of Sabine Pass, Texas, "he was wounded in the left leg in an engagement with 2 rebel cutter boats and treated for the same at Sabine City and after escaping was treated in New Orleans Hospital, served from November 64 to March 68 on board the tug Zouve for about 7 months when he was sent to Hospital in (illegible) of the wound he had received in a former enlistment at Sabine Pass (illegible) Washington Hospital, Washington City." This is a digital copy of the original record held by the National Archives.

On July 15, 1872, Benjamin Drummond filed this Declaration for Invalid Pension.
It states that on January 21, 1863, while aboard the USS Morning Light off of Sabine Pass,
Texas, he was wounded in the left leg in an engagement with 2 rebel cutter boats and treated
for the same at Sabine City and after escaping was treated in New Orleans Hospital, served
from November 64 to March 68 on board the tug Zouve for about 7 months when he was sent to
Hospital in (illegible) of the wound he had received in a former enlistment at Sabine Pass
(illegible) Washington Hospital, Washington City. This is a digital copy of the original
record held by the National Archives.

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