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.
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Last updated October 26, 2008
