Benjamin Drummond - The First Patient

USS Morning Light - Reports of Capture

Enclosure to report dated April 1, 1863, by Acting Master Dillingham, U. S. Navy, late commanding U. S. ship Morning Light, to Commodore H. H. Bell (Page 2 of 3 pages). This report is in Volume 19 of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.

(The report can be found on the bottom of page 556, and this enclosure is continued on page 558)

Report of Acting Master Dillingha, U. S. Navy, late commanding U. S. ship Morning Light,
to Commodore H. H. Bell

(Following is a transcription of the enclosure to the report, dated April 1, 1863, of Acting Master Dillingham, U. S. Navy, late commanding U. S. ship Morning Light, to Commodore H. H. Bell)

(The report can be found on the bottom of page 556, and this enclosure is continued on page 558)

[Enclosure]

List of officers and men of the U. S. ship Morning Light, John Dillingham, acting master, commanding.

	Name	Rank	Remarks
	Henry W. Washburn	Acting Master and executive Officer
	W. W. Fowler	Acting Master
	George H. Rice
	John W. Sherfy	Surgeon	Returned.
	John L. Chambers	Acting master's mate
	Henry L. Van Wyck	Paymaster's steward
	George H. Abbott	Yeoman	Died Dec. 12, 1863, Camp Groce.
1	W.J.R. Clark	Surgeio's steward
2	Jno. Morrison	Boatswain's mate
3	Jno. H. Williams	.....do.....	Exchanged.
4	Wm. Campbell	Captain forecastle	Died June 26, 1864, Camp Groce.
5	Wm. Jenkins	Captain maintop
6	Daniel George	Captain foretop	Exchanged.
7	Peter Le Prevost	Captain afterguard	Died at Camp Groce, July 9, 1863.
8	John Bowen	Coxswain
9	Antonio Galushia	.....do.....
10	Thomas Sheperd	Quartermaster	Exchanged.
11	John P. Lind	.....do.....
12	Joseph Little	Master-at-arms
13	Jno. McClennan	Captain of hold
14	Chas. Thomas	Gunner's mate	Died Sept. -, 1863, Camp Groce.
15	Jas. H. Warden	Quarter gunner
16	Jno. T. Griffith	Carpenter's mate
17	Jno. Halsey	Captain forecastle
18	Morris E. Lyons	Captain's steward	Excaped.
19	Joseph C. Shorter	Wardroom steward	Negro.
20	James Johnson	Wardroom cook	Do.
21	Timothy Baldwin	Ship's cook	Died Aug. -, 1863, Camp Groce.
22	Alphonso Mathews	Seaman	Exchanged as a soldier.
23	Edward Noble	.....do.....	Do.
24	Wm. Thomas	.....do.....
25	Jno. S. Taplin	.....do.....	Do.
26	Henry R. Snyder	.....do.....
27	Daniel Illingworth	.....do.....	Exchanged.
28	Daniel Burke	.....do.....
29	George Dawson	.....do.....
30	John Williams, 2d	.....do.....
31	John D. Oliver	.....do.....
32	Michael Sugrue	.....do.....
33	W.H.H. Gilbert	.....do.....
34	Augustus Johnson	.....do.....
35	F.A. Van Ronk	.....do.....	Do.
36	Chas. Ryan	.....do.....	Do.
37	Joseph Hafley	.....do.....	Do.
38	Francis Murray	.....do.....
39	Henry D. Buck	.....do.....
40	Chas. Baxter	.....do.....	Died Dept. 23, 1863, at Camp Groce, Tex.
41	Jno. Dickson	.....do.....
42	George Owen	.....do.....
43	Wm. Sweeney	.....do.....
44	Chas. Mosely	.....do.....
45	Henry Newell	.....do.....	Believed to have escaped.
46	Chas. Lane	.....do.....
47	Jas. Mason	Ordinary seamsn
48	Jas. Redan	.....do.....	Negro.
49	Jas. H. Collins	.....do.....	Exchanged.
50	Geo. F. Mitus	.....do.....
51	Wm. Ferry	.....do.....
52	Michael Boyld	.....do.....
53	Benjamin Drummond	.....do.....	Negro.
54	James Collins	.....do.....	Exchanged.
55	M.F. Wilson	.....do.....
56	Thomas Egan	.....do.....
57	Michael Kenney	.....do.....
58	Lawrence Bartley	.....do.....
59	Wm. Brock	.....do.....	Do.
60	O.A. Coburn	.....do.....
61	Archy McArthur	.....do.....
62	C.B. Tweedy	.....do.....	Died July -, 1864, at Hempstead, Tex.
63	John Ryan	.....do.....
64	John McNulty	.....do.....	Exchanged.
65	James Peterson	.....do.....	Negro.

(The report can be found on the bottom of page 556, and this enclosure is continued on page 558)

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