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Samuel Holman, Asst. Surgeon, U.S. Navy

From the Medical And Surgical History of the War of Rebellion database

Report of Acting Assistant Surgeon Holman, U.S. Navy, giving the casualties on board the U.S.S. Wyalusing.

U.S.S. WYALUSING,
Off Plymouth, N.C., December 31, 1864.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the list of casualties on board this vessel during the late expedition up the Roanoke River, North Carolina.

Wounded.--Robert Williams, landsman, lacerated wound of scalp, caused by a splinter on the evening of the 22d instant; doing well.

I am, sir, very respectfully, etc.

 SAMUEL HOLMAN,
Acting Assistant Surgeon.

 Lieutenant-Commander EARL ENGLISH, U.S. Navy,
Commanding Officer.

 

1865 HOLMAN SAMUEL Acting Assistant Surgeon. 22 June 1864.  Honorably discharged 2 October 1863

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USS Wyalusing was a double-ended, side-wheel gunboat that served in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for the borough of Wyalusing in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Wyalusing was built at Philadelphia by C. H. & W. H. Cramp, launched on 12 May 1863, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 8 February 1864, with Lieutenant Commander Walter W. Queen in command.

USS Wyalusing coming to the aid of USS Otsego and USS Bazely on the Roanoke River, 9 December 1864

 

 

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