Report of Union casualties during the engagement resulting in the capture of the USS Morning Light. This is a digital copy of the original record held by the National Archives. Click here to see page one of this report.
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middle of the left leg, directly backward, fracturing a small portion of the anterior edge of the Tibia, and passing between it and the Fibula.
John Williams, 2d, ord. Seaman. Same as Drummond, excepting the fracture.
Wm. Ferry, Seaman, - a fragment of shell struck on the left side of the spine, passing under the skin obliquely upward about eight inches, and lodging near the inferior angle of the right scapula, where it was extracted through a cutaneous incision.
John H. Williams, Charles Bliss, and about twenty others, received slight wounds, not worthy of special mention.
All the above requiring special care are now at the Houston General Hospital.
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
John W. Sherfy
A.A. Surgeon U.S.N.
To
Acting Master John Dillingham, U.S.N.
Late Commanding
U.S. Ship "Morning Light"
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