Benjamin Drummond - The First Patient

USS Gunboat Katahdin Logbook

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 Katahdin, a Union gunboat. 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." This is a digital copy of the original record held by the National Archives.

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, that had been captured and burned some months since. This is a
digital copy of the original held by the National Archives.

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Last updated December 26, 2007