Catalogue description Folios 5, 24: Robert Therry, aged 28, landsman; disease or hurt, grape shot wound...

Folios 5, 24: Robert Therry, aged 28, landsman; disease or hurt, grape shot wound through left arm. Arm amputated later on HMS Carron. Put on sick list, 15 September 1814, off Fort Bowyer points, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America. Discharged 28 October 1814 to HMS Childers for a passage to England.

Folios 5-6 and 10, 24: Edward Hall, aged 34, landsman, who has served twenty years, greater part in tropical latitudes; disease or hurt, left hand torn off by a cannon ball, the other arm slightly lacerated by splinter, a cut on the interior part of the left ear and a severe contusion near the middle and anterior part of both thighs from a splinter. Transferred to HMS Carron. Put on sick list, 15 September 1814, off Fort Bowyer points, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America. Discharged 28 October 1814 to HMS Childers for a passage to England.

Folios 6 and 9, 11-12, 24: William James, aged 16; disease or hurt, struck on the left knee with a cannon ball. Transferred to HMS Carron where his leg was amputated. Put on sick list, 15 September 1814, off Fort Bowyer points, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America. Discharged 28 October 1814 to HMS Childers for a passage to England.

Folios 6 and 10, 24: Owen Lynch, aged 22, landsman; disease or hurt, struck on the right forearm by grape shot. Transferred to HMS Carron where his arm was amputated. Put on sick list, 15 September 1814, off Fort Bowyer points, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America. Discharged 28 October 1814 to HMS Childers for a passage to England.

Folios 6-7 and 10: Edward Nicolls, aged 35, lieutenant; disease or hurt, early part of action received a wound from a grape shot over the right eye. Transferred to HMS Carron. Put on sick list, 15 September 1814, off Fort Bowyer points, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America. Discharged 19 September 1814 to his own house at headquarters.

Folios 7 and 10, 22: John Braid, aged 24, clerk; disease or hurt, wounded over the left eye. Transferred to HMS Carron. Put on sick list, 15 September 1814, off Fort Bowyer points, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America. Discharged 12 October 1814 to duty.

Folios 7 and 10-11, 24: Lawrence Mahoney, aged 20; disease or hurt, grape shot wound of the left arm. Transferred to HMS Carron. Put on sick list, 15 September 1814, off Fort Bowyer points, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America. Discharged 28 October 1814 to HMS Childers for a passage to England.

Folios 7 and 11, 23: Gilbert Haumes, aged 26; disease or hurt, violent pain in the right knee caused by a splinter. Transferred to HMS Carron. Put on sick list, 15 September 1814, off Fort Bowyer points, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America. Discharged 15 October 1814 to duty.

Folios 7-8 and 11, 24: John Borders, aged 27; disease or hurt, neck much discoloured (possibly due to grapeshot), severe bruising of left arm and shoulder. Transferred to HMS Carron. Put on sick list, 15 September 1814, off Fort Bowyer points, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America. Discharged 28 October 1814 to HMS Childers for a passage to England.

Folio 12: 19 September 1814; having received an order from the Honourable Captain Percy to hire an house [in Pensacola] and receive the wounded of the Hermes and other ships of the squadron, into the same as an hospital and to consider myself as surgeon and Agent and Mr McGovern, Acting Surgeon of the Sophie to assist me in my surgical duties. All the bad cases in the squadron to the number of thirty, were today received into the hospital.

Folios 12, 19, 21: Walter Price, aged 30, landsman; disease or hurt, while serving on HMS Sophie was wounded in the head on 15 September 1814 by a grape shot. Died 30 September 1814.

Folios 12-13, 19-20, 22-23: William Sherriden, aged 34; disease or hurt, while serving on HMS Sophie had his left leg amputated below the knee on 15 September 1814. Died 13 October 1814.

Folios 13, 22-23: Alexander Cummins, aged 18; disease or hurt, while serving on HMS Sophie had part of right leg amputated on 15 September 1814. Died 13 October 1814.

Folios 13-14, 18-19: John Phillips, aged 39; disease or hurt, while serving on HMS Sophie was wounded in his left thigh and on the left hand by grape shot on 15 September 1814. Died 24 September 1814.

Folios 16-17, 24: David Jones, aged 27, landsman; disease or hurt, belonging to HMS Carron on 15 September 1814 received a wound to the right arm. Discharged 28 October 1814 to HMS Childers for a passage to England.

Folio 25: a numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 25-26: Surgeon’s general remarks. Refers to removing the wounded from HMS Hermes when she became a wreck to other ships in the squadron when within 150 yards of the enemy fort. Visited the wounded and performed numerous operations passing from ship to ship which occupied him until 5am of the 16 September 1814. Acknowledges assistance of Surgeon Petrie and Brown and Mr McGovern at the hospital. Makes observations about the potency of medicines in treating those wounded in battle. States that tetanus is a very frequent concormitant of wounds in this part of the world.

Folio 26: Describes Pensacola has containing about 2000 souls, and during the six week stay there, two cases of tetanus had occurred among the inhabitants, one in ‘a stout young woman’ and the other in ‘a stout young negro’. The temperature at Pensacola on arrival after the action was eighty two for the first seven days, on the eighth day it dropped by sixteen degrees. Calls into question the writings on the condition of tetanus. Makes further remarks on the patients Price, Cross, McDonald, Sherriden and Cummins.