1873 Surgeon's Certificate of Pensioner Examination in which Drummond appears to have claimed that he was "Wounded in the right arm just below the shoulder joint..." This is a digital copy of the original record held by the National Archives. Click here to see the other side of this Certificate.
Of Biennial, Annual, or Semi-annual Examination, on which the Pensioner draws his Pension.
State: New York, County: (Illegible)
Post Office: Brooklyn, Sept. 8, 1873
State: New York, County: Kings
We hereby certify, that we have carefully examined Benjamin Drummond, who was an ord. Seaman, U. S. S. Morning Light, U. S. Navy, in the war and was granted an Invalid Pension under Certificate No. 1719 to be paid now at the Agency in Brooklyn by reason of alleged disability resulting from G.S.W. (gun shot wound) left leg and right shoulder which he states to have been received in the line of duty while he was in the military service of the United States.
In our opinion the said Pensioner's disability, from the cause aforesaid, continues at one half $4.00.
A more particular description of the Pensioner's condition is subjoined:
Height, 5 ft. 6; Weight, 140; complexion, Black; age, 30; respiration, 18; pulse, 70
Wounded in right arm just below shoulder joint, probably involving joint. Muscles adherent to the humerus, and atrophied. Inability to raise the arm.
Also wounded through left leg in middle 3d which impairs the efficiency of the limb. Should be rated in intermediate grade.
(Illegible Signature)
(Illegible Signature)M.D.
Examining Surgeons
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