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U. of Naval Hospital
Washington D.C.
October 2nd, 1873
Surgeon General
J. Beale M.D. (illegible),
Chief of the Bureau of Med. and Surgery
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of Sept. 30, 1873, referring to the case of Benjamin Drummond, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Morning Light and requesting if the records of the Hospital for March 1868 "will show that the claimant was treated for gunshot wound of the right shoulder."
The records of the Hospital state that Benjamin Drummond, Ordinary Seaman (Col'd) Oct. 24, Nat.[ive] New York, shipped at Portsmouth N.H. Dec 1864; was received October 1, 1866 from the Temporary Naval Hospital at the Insane Asylum, Wash, with the following endorsement upon his hospital ticket.
"Admitted to this Hospital June 27, 1866 from Annapolis with gunshot wound of the left leg,"
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