Benjamin Drummond - The First Patient

USS Gunboat Katahdin

On August 19, 1863, Benjamin Drummond escaped from his Confederate captors and rowed out into the Gulf of Mexico where he was taken aboard the USS Gunboat Katahdin which recorded in its logbook that Drummond was one of the former crewmembers of the "U.S.S. Morning Light, captured and burned some months since." He was promptly transferred to the USS Tennessee for transportation to New Orleans, where he was admitted to the Naval Hospital. The original copy of this photograph is held by the Naval Historical Center at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, DC.

On August 19, 1863, Benjamin Drummond escaped from his Confederate captors and
rowed out into the Gulf of Mexico where he was taken aboard the USS Gunboat
Katahdin. The logbook of the Katahdin noted that
Drummond was one of the former crewmembers of the U.S.S. Morning Light, captured and
burned some months since. The original copy of this photograph is held by the Naval
Historical Center at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, DC.

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Last updated December 26, 2007