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26
Dec

THESE PAST EVENTS BECAME HISTORY

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26
Dec

THE FIRST HOSPITAL SHIP COMMISSIONED

Red Rover: First Hospital Ship of the U.S. Navy | Proceedings - November 1968 Vol. 94/11/789

On this day in 1862, the US Navy formally commissions its
first hospital ship, the Red Rover. A captured Confederate
side-wheel steamer, it treats 374 patients in its first seven
months of service on the Mississippi, 332 of whom were
discharged; 37 die and five desert.

Did you know the U.S. Navy's first hospital ship set sail in 1862? Commissioned during the Civil War, USS Red Rover was originally a Confederate vessel—but after capture by Union forces, she

Hospital Ships on the Western Rivers, first naval hospital ship commissioned December 26, 1862 The United States Sanitary Commission was set up as a private relief organization by act of Federal Legislation

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