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U.S. Navy Recipients
ATKINSON, THOMAS E., Yeoman, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, 5 August 1864 AVERY, JAMES, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Metacomet, 5 August 1864 BAKER, CHARLES, Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy., USS Metacomet, 5 August 1864 BALDWIN, CHARLES, Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., USS Wyalusing, 25 May 1864 BARNUM, JAMES, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS New Ironsides, 24-25 December 1864, 13-15 Jan. 1865 BARTER, GURDON H., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Minnesota, 15 January 1865 BARTON, THOMAS, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Hunchback, Franklin, Va., 3 October 1862 BASS, DAVID L., Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Minnesota, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 BAZAAR, PHILIP, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Santiago de Cuba, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 BELL, GEORGE, Captain of the Afterguard, U.S. Navy., USS Santee, Galveston Bay, Texas, 7 November 1861 BETHAM, ASA, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Pontoosuc, Fort Fisher, 24 December 1864-22 January 1865 BIBBER, CHARLES J., Gunner's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Agawam, Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864 BICKFORD, JOHN F., Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 BLAGHEEN, WILLIAM, Ship's Cook, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Fort Fisher, 5 August 1864 BLAIR, ROBERT M., Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Pontoosuc, Fort Fisher, 24 Dec. 1864-22 Jan. 1865 BLAKE, ROBERT, Contraband, U.S. Navy., USS Marblehead, Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863 BOIS, FRANK, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Cincinnati, Vicksburg, 27 May 1863 BOND, WILLIAM, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 BOURNE, THOMAS, Seaman and Gun Captain, U.S. Navy., USS Varuna, Fort Jackson, 24 April 1862 BOWMAN, EDWARD R., Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 13-15 January 1865 BRADLEY, AMOS, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Varuna, Fort Jackson, 24 April 1862 BRADLEY, CHARLES, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Louisville BRAZELL, JOHN, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 BREEN, JOHN, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Commodore Perry, Franklin, Va., 03 October 1862 BRENNAN, CHRISTOPHER, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Mississippi, Fort Jackson, 24-25 April 1862 BRINN, ANDREW, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Mississippi, Port Hudson, 14 March 1863 BROWN, JAMES, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Albatross, Fort De Russy, 04 May 1863 BROWN, JOHN, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 BROWN, ROBERT, Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 BROWN, WILLIAM H., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 BROWN, WILSON, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 05 August 1864 BROWNELL, WILLIAM P., Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Benton, Great Gulf Bay, 02 May 1863; Vicksburg, 22 May 1863 BRUTSCHE, HENRY, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Tacony, Plymouth, N.C., 31 October 1864 BUCK, JAMES, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Forts Jackson, St. Philip, New Orleans 24-25 April 1862 BURNS, JOHN M., Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 BURTON, ALBERT, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Wabash, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1856 BUTTS, GEORGE, Gunner's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Signal, Red River, 5 May 1864 BYRNES, JAMES, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Louisville CAMPBELL, WILLIAM, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 24-25 Dec. 1864; 13-15 Jan. 1865 CARR, WILLIAM M., Master-at-Arms, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 CASSIDY, MICHAEL, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 CHANDLER, JAMES B., Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 CHAPUT, LOUIS G., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 CLlFFORD, ROBERT T., Master-at-Arms, U.S. Navy., USS Shokolon, Wilmington, N.C. 22 August 1863 COLBERT, PATRICK, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Commodore Hull, Plymouth, 31 October 1864 CONLAN, DENNIS, Seaman, U S. Navy., USS Agawam, Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864 CONNOR, THOMAS, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Minnesota, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 CONNOR, WILLIAM C., Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Howquah, Wilmington, 25 September 1864 COOPER, JOHN (first award), Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1865 COOPER, JOHN (second award), Coxswain, U.S. Navy., Mobile, Ala., 26 April 1865 CORCORAN, THOMAS E., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Cincinnati, Vicksburg COTTON, PETER, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Baron De Kalb, Yazoo River, 23-27 December 1862 CRAWFORD, ALEXANDER, Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Wyalusing, Roanoke River, 25 May 1864 CRIPPS, THOMAS, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 CRONIN, CORNELIUS, Chief Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., DAVIS, JOHN, Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy., USS Valley City, Elizabeth City, N.C., 10 February 1862 DAVIS, SAMUEL W., Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 DEAKIN, CHARLES, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 DEMPSTER, JOHN, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS New Ironsides, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864; 13-15 January 1865 DENNING, LORENZO, Landsman, U.S. Navy., US Picket Boat No. 1, 27 October 1864 DENNIS, RICHARD, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 DENSMORE, WILLIAM, Chief Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 DIGGINS, BARTHOLOMEW, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 DITZENBACK, JOHN, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Neosho, Bells Bill, 6 December 1864 DONNELLY, JOHN, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Metacomet, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 DOOLEN, WILLIAM, Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 DORMAN, JOHN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Carondelet DOUGHERTY, PATRICK, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Fort Morgan DOW, HENRY, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Cincinnati, Vicksburg, 27 May 1863 DUNCAN, ADAM, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 DUNCAN, JAMES K. L., Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Fort Hindman, Harrisonburg, La., 2 March 1864 DUNN, WILLIAM, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Monadnock, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864, 13-15 January 1865 DUNPHY, RICHARD D., Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 EDWARDS, JOHN, Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ENGLISH, THOMAS, Signal Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS New Ironsides, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864, 13-15 January 1865 ERICKSON, JOHN P., Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Pontoosuc, Fort Fisher, 24 December 1864-22 February 1865 FARLEY, WILLIAM, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Marblehead, Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863 FARRELL, EDWARD, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Owasco, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862 FERRELL, JOHN H., Pilot, U.S. Navy., USS Neosho, Bells Mills, 6 December 1864 FITZPATRICK, THOMAS, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 FLOOD, THOMAS, Boy, U.S. Navy., USS Pensacola, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, New Orleans, 24-25 April 1862 FOY, CHARLES H., Signal Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., FRANKS, WILLIAM J., Seaman, U.S. Navy., FREEMAN, MARTIN, Pilot, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 FRISBEE, JOHN B., Gunner's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Pinola, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, New Orleans, 24 April 1862 GARDNER, WILLIAM, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Calena, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 GARRISON, JAMES R., Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 GARVIN, WILLIAM, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Agawam, Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864 GEORGE, DANIEL G. (real name is William Smith. ), Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., US Picket Boat No. 1, 27 October 1864 GILE, FRANK S., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Lehigh, Charleston Harbor, 16 November 1863 GRAHAM, ROBERT, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Tacony, Plymouth, N.C., 31 October 1864 GREENE, JOHN, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Varuna, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862 GRIFFITHS, JOHN, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Santiago de Cuba, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 GRISWOLD, LUKE M., Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Rhode Island, Cape Hatteras, 30 December 1862 HAFFEE, EDMUND, Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy., USS New Ironsides, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864, 3-15 January 1865 HALEY, JAMES, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 HALSTEAD, WILLIAM, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 HAM, MARK G., Carpenter's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 HAMILTON, HUGH, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 HAMILTON, RICHARD, Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., U.S. Picket Boat No. 1, 27 October 1864 HAMILTON, THOMAS W., Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Cincinnati, Vicksburg, 27 May 1863 HAND, ALLEXANDER, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Ceres, Roanoke River, 9 July 1862 HARCOURT, THOMAS, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Minnesota, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 HARDING, THOMAS, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Dacotah, Beauford, N.C., 9 June 1864 HARLEY, BERNARD, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., US Picket Boat No. 1, 27 October 1864 HARRINGTON, DANIEL, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Pocahontas HARRIS, JOHN, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Metacomet, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 HARRISON, GEORGE H., Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 HATHAWAY, EDWARD W., Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Sciota, Vicksburg, 28 June 1862 HAWKINS, CHARLES, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Agawam, Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864 HAYDEN, JOSEPH B., Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 13-15 January 1865 HAYES, JOHN, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 HAYES, THOMAS, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 HICKMAN, JOHN, Second Class Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Port Hudson, 14 March 1863 HINNECAN, WILLIAM, Second Class Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Agawam, Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864 HOLLAT, GEORGE, Third Class Boy, U.S. Navy., USS Varuna, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862 HORTON, JAMES, Gunner's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Montauk, 21 September 1864 HORTON, LEWIS A., Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Rhode Island, Cape Hatteras, 30 December 1862 HOUGHTON, EDWARD J., Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., US Picket Boat No. 1, 27 October 1864 HOWARD, MARTIN, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Tacony, Plymouth, N.C., 31 October 1864 HOWARD, PETER, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Mississippi, Port Hudson, 14 March 1863 HUSKEY, MICHAEL, Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Carondelet, Deer Creek Expedition, March 1863 HYLAND, JOHN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Signal, Red River, 5 May 1864 IRLAM, JOSEPH, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 IRVING, JOHN, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 IRVING, THOMAS, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Lehigh, Charleston Harbor, 16 November 1863 IRWIN, NICHOLAS, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 1864 JAMES, JOHN H., Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 JENKINS, THOMAS, Seaman, U.S. Navy, USS Cincinnati, Vicksburg, 27 May 1863 JOHNSON, HENRY, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Metacomet, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 JOHNSTON, WILLIAM P., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Fort Hindman, Harrisonburg, La., 2 March 1864 JONES, ANDREW, Chief Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Chickasaw, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 JONES, JOHN, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Rhode Island, Cape Hatteras, 30 December 1862 JONES, JOHN E., Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Oneida, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 JONES, THOMAS, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864, 13-15 January 1865 JONES, WILLIAM, Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 1864 JORDAN, ROBERT, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Minnesota, USS Mount Washington, Nansemond River, 14 April 1863 JORDAN, THOMAS, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Calena, Mobile Bay, 1864 KANE, THOMAS, Captain of the Hold, U.S. Navy., USS Nereus, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 KELLEY, JOHN, Second Class Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Ceres, Roanoke River, 9 July 1862 KENDRICK, THOMAS, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Oneida, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 KENNA, BARNETT, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 KENYON, CHARLES, Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Calena, Drewry's Bluff, 15 May 1862 KING, ROBERT H., Landsman, U.S. Navy. Place: Plymouth, N.C., US Picket Boat No. 1, 27 October 1864 KINNAIRD, SAMUEL W., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 LAFFERTY, JOHN, Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Wyalusing, Roanoke River, 25 May 1864 LAFFEY, BARTLETT, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Marmora, off Yazoo City, Miss., 5 March 1864 LAKIN, DANIEL, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Commodore Perry, Franklin, Va., 3 October 1862 LANN, JOHN S., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Magnolia, St. Marks, Fla., 5-6 March LAWSON, JOHN, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 LEAR, NICHOLAS, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS New Ironsides, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864, 13-15 January 1865 LEE, JAMES H., Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 LELAND, GEORGE W., Gunner's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Lehigh, Charleston Harbor, 16 November 1863 LEON, PIERRE, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Baron De Kalb, Yazoo River Expedition, 23-27 December 1862 LLOYD, BENJAMIN, Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., USS Wyalusing, Roanoke River, 25 May 1864 LLOYD, JOHN W., Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Wyalusing, Roanoke River, 25 May 1864 LOGAN, HUGH (posthumous), Captain of the Afterguard, U.S. Navy., USS Rhode Island, Mobile Bay, 30 December 1862 LYONS, THOMAS, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Pensacola, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862 MACHON, JAMES, Boy, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 MACK, ALEXANDER, Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 MACK, JOHN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Hendrick Hudson, St. Marks, Fla., 5-6 March 1865 MADDEN, WILLIAM, Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 MARTIN, EDWARD S., Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Calena, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 MARTIN, WILLIAM, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Benton, Yazoo River, 27 December 1862 MARTIN, WILLIAM, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Varuna, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862 McCLELLAND, MATTHEW, First Class Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Port Hudson, 14 March 1863 McCORMlCK, MICHAEL, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Signal, Red River, 5 May 1864 McCULLOCK, ADAM, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 McDONALD, JOHN, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Baron De Kalb, Yazoo River Expedition, 23-27 December 1862 McFARLAND, JOHN, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 McGOWAN, JOHN, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Varuna, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862 McHUGH, MARTIN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Cincinnati, Vicksburg, 27 May 1863 MclNTOSH, JAMES, Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 McKNIGHT, WILLIAM, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Varuna, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862 McLEOD, JAMES, Captain of the Foretop, U.S. Navy., USS Pensacola, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, New Orleans, 24-25 April 1862 McWlLLlAMS, GEORGE W., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Pontoosuc, Fort Fisher, Wilmington, 24 December 1864-22 February 1865 MELVILLE, CHARLES, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile bay, 5 August 1864 MIFFLIN, JAMES, Engineer's Cook, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 MILLER, JAMES, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy, USS Marblehead, Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863 MILLIKEN, DANIEL, Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy., USS New Ironsides, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864, 13-15 January 1865 MILLS, CHARLES, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Minnesota, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 MOLLOY, HUGH, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Fort Hindman, Harrisonburg, La., 2 March 1864 MONTGOMERY, ROBERT, Captain of the Afterguard, U.S. Navy., USS Agawam, Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864 MOORE, CHARLES, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Marblehead, Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863 MOORE, CHARLES, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 MOORE, GEORGE, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Rhode Island, Cape Hatteras, 30 December 1862 MOORE, WILLIAM, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Benton, Yazoo River, 27 December 1862 MORGAN, JAMES H., Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 MORRISON, JOHN G., Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Carondelet, Yazoo River, 15 July 1862 MORTON, CHARLES W., Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Benton, Yazoo River, 23-27 December 1863 MULLEN, PATRICK, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USSWyandank, Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865 MULLEN, PATRICK, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Don, 01 May 1865 MURPHY, PATRICK, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Metacomet, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 NAYLOR, DAVID, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Oneida, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 NEIL, JOHN, Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy., USS Agawam, Fort Fisher, 23 Decembr 1864 NEWLAND, WILLIAM, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Oneida, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 NIBBE, JOHN H., Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Peterel, Yazoo River, 22 April 1864 NICHOLS, WILLIAM, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 NOBLE, DANIEL, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Metacomet, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 O'BRIEN, OLIVER, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS John Adams, Sullivan's Island Channel, 28 November 1864 O'CONNELL, THOMAS, Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 O'DONOGHUE, TIMOTHY, Seaman, U.S. Navy,, USS Signal, Red River, 5 May 1864 ORTEGA, JOHN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Saratoga PARKER, WILLIAM, Captain of the Afterguard, U.S. Navy., USS Cayuga, Forts St. Philip and Jackson, New Orleans, 24-25 April 1862 PARKS, GEORGE, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 PEASE, JOACHIM, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 PECK, OSCAR E., Second Class Boy, U.S. Navy., USS Varuna, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862 PELHAM, WILLIAM, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 PERRY, THOMAS, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 PETERSON, ALFRED, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Commodore Perry, Franklin, Va., 3 October 1862 PHINNEY, WILLIAM, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., POOLE, WILLIAM B., Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsearge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 PRANCE, GEORGE, Captain of the Main Top, U.S. Navy., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864, 13-15 Janauary 1865 PRESTON, JOHN, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Oneida, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 PRICE, EDWARD, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 PROVINCE, GEORGE, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Santiago de Cuba, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 PYNE, GEORGE, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Magnolia, St. Marks, Fla., 5-6 March 1865 READ, CHARLES, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Magnolia, St. Marks, Fla., 5-6 March 1865 READ, CHARLES A., Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 READ, GEORGE E., Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 REGAN, JEREMIAH, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Galena, Drewy's Bluff, 15 May 1862 RICE, CHARLES, Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., USS Agawam, Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864 RICHARDS, LOUIS, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Pensacola, Forts Jackson and St. Philip, New Orleans, 24-25 April 1862 RINGOLD, EDWARD, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., ROBERTS, JAMES, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Agawan, Fort Fisher, 23 December 1864 ROBINSON, ALEXANDER, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Howquah, Wilmington, 25 September 1864 ROBINSON, CHARLES, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Baron de Kalb, Yazoo River Expedition, 23-27 December 1862 ROUNTRY, JOHN, First Class Fireman, U.S. Navy., RUSH, JOHN, First Class Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Port Hudson, 14 March 1863 SANDERSON, AARON, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Wyandank, Mattox Creek, 17 March 1865 SAUNDERS, JAMES, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 SAVAGE, AUZELLA, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Santiago de Cuba, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 SCHUTT, GEORGE, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Hendrick Hudson, St. Marks, Fla., 5-6 March 1865 SEANOR, JAMES, Master-at-Arms, U.S. Navy., USS Chickasaw, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SEWARD, RICHARD E., Paymaster's Steward, U.S. Navy., Ship Island Sound, La., 23 November 1863 SHARP, HENDRICK, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SHEPARD, LOUIS C., Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Wabash, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 SHERIDAN, JAMES, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Oneida, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SHIPMAN, WILLIAM, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 SHUTES, HENRY, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Wissahickon, New Orleans, 24-25 April 1862, Fort McAllister, 27 February 1863 SIMKINS, LEBBEUS, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SMITH, CHARLES H. (posthumous), Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Rhode Island, Mobile Bay, 30 December 1862 SMITH, EDWIN, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Whitehead, Franklin, Va., 3 October 1862 SMITH, JAMES, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SMITH, JOHN, Captain of Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SMITH, JOHN, Second Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SMITH, OLOFF, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SMITH, THOMAS, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Magnolia, St. Marks, Fla., 5-6 March 1865 SMITH, WALTER B., Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SMITH, WILLIAM, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 STANLEY, WILLIAM A., Shell Man, U.S. Navy., USS Hartford, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 STERLING, JAMES E., Coal Heaver, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 STEVENS, DANIEL D., Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Cononicus, Fort Fisher, 13 January 1865 STODDARD, JAMES, Seaman, U.S. Navy., US Marmora, off Yazoo City, Miss., 5 March 1864 STOUT, RICHARD, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Isaac Smith, Stono River, 30 January 1863 STRAHAN, ROBERT, Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy., USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864 SULLIVAN, JAMES, Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Agawam, Fort Fisher, 2 December 1864 SULLIVAN, JOHN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., SULLIVAN, TIMOTHY, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., SUMMERS, ROBERT, Chief Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 13-15 January 1865 SWANSON, JOHN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Santiago de Cuba, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 SWATTON, EDWARD, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Santiago de Cuba, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 SWEARER, BENJAMIN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Pawnee, Fort Clark, 29 August 1861 TALBOTT, WILLIAM, Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Louisville, 10-11 January 1863 TALLENTlNE, JAMES (posthumous), Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy., USS Tacony, Plymouth, N.C., 31 October 1864 TAYLOR, GEORGE, Armorer, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 TAYLOR, JOHN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., Navy Yard, New York, 9 September 1865 TAYLOR, THOMAS, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Metacomet, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 TAYLOR, WILLIAM G., Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864 THIELBERG, HENRY, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Mount Washington, Nansemond River, 14 April 1863 THOMPSON, WILLIAM, Signal Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Mohican, Forts Beauregard and Walker, 7 November 1861 TODD, SAMUEL, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 TRIPP, OTHNIEL, Chief Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., TRUETT, ALEXANDER H., Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 VANTINE, JOSEPH E., First Class Fireman, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Port Hudson, 14 March 1863 VERNEY, JAMES W., Chief Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Pontoosuc, Fort Fisher and Wilmington, 24 December 1864-22 February 1865 WAGG, MAURICE, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Rhode Island, Cape Hatteras, 31 December 1862 WARD, JAMES, Quarter Gunner, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 WARREN, DAVID, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Monticello, Wilmington, N.C., 23-25 June 1864 WEBSTER, HENRY S., Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Susquehanna, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 WEEKS, CHARLES H., Captain of the Foretop, U.S. Navy., USS Montauk, 21 September 1864 WELLS, WILLIAM, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 WHITE, JOSEPH, Captain of the Gun, U.S. Navy., USS New Ironsides, Fort Fisher, 24-25 December 1864, 13-15 January 1865 WHITFIELD, DANIEL, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Lackawanna, Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 WILCOX, FRANKLIN L., Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Minnesota, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 WILKES, HENRY, Landsman, U.S. Navy., US Picket Boat No. 1, 27 October 1864 WILKES, PERRY, Pilot, U.S. Navy., USS Signal, Red River, 5 May 1864 WILLIAMS, ANTHONY, Sailmaker's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Pontoosuc, Fort Fisher, Wilmington, 24 December 1864-22 February 1865 WILLIAMS, AUGUSTUS, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Santiago de Cuba, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 WILLIAMS, JOHN, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Mohican, Fort Beauregard and Walker, 7 November 1861 WILLIAMS, JOHN, Captain of the Maintop, U.S. Navy., USS Pawnee, Mathias Point, 26 June 1861 WILLIAMS, JOHN, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Commodore Perry, Franklin, Va., 3 October 1862 WILLIAMS, PETER, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Monitor, Hampton Roads, 9 March 1862 WILLIAMS, ROBERT, Signal Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Benton, Yazoo River Expedition, 23-27 December 1862 WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, Landsman, U.S. Navy., USS Lehigh, Charleston Harbor, 16 November 1863 WILLIS, RICHARD, Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS New Ironsides, Fort fisher, 24-25 Dcember 1864, 13-15 January 1865 WOOD, ROBERT B., Coxswain, U.S. Navy., WOODS, SAMUEL, Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Mount Washington, Nansemond River, 14 April 1863 WOON, JOHN, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Pittsburg, Mississippi River, 29 April 1863 WORAM, CHARLES B., Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Oneida, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 WRIGHT, EDWARD, Quartermaster, U.S. Navy., USS Cayuga, Forts St. Philip and Jackson, New Orleans, 24-25 April 1862 WRIGHT, WILLIAM, Yoeman, U.S. Navy., USS Monticello, Wilmington, N.C., 23-25 June 1864 YOUNG, EDWARD B., Coxswain, U.S. Navy., USS Calena, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 YOUNG, HORATIO N., Seaman, U.S. Navy., USS Lehigh, Charleston harbor, 16 November 1863 YOUNG, WILLIAM, Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy., USS Cayuga, Forts St. Philip and Jackson, New Orleans, 24-25 April 1862 U.S. Marine Corps Recipients BINDER, RICHARD, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 24-25 Dec. 1864, 13-15 Jan. 1865 DENIG, J. HENRY, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 FRY, ISAAC N., Orderly Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Ticonderoga, Fort Fisher, 13-15 January 1865 HUDSON, MICHAEL, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 MACKIE, JOHN F., Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Calena, Drewry's Bluff, 15 May 1862 MARTIN, JAMES, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 MILLER, ANDREW, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 NUGENT, CHRISTOPHER, Orderly Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Fort Henry, Crystal River, Fla., 15 June 1863 OVIATT, MILES M., Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 RANNAHAN. JOHN, Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Minnesota, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 ROANTREE, JAMES S., Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Oneida, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SHIVERS, JOHN, Private, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Minnesota, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 SMITH, WILLARD M., Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 SPROWLE, DAVID, Orderly Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Richmond, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 THOMPSON, HENRY A., Private, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Minnesota, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 TOMLIN, ANDREW J., Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Wabash, Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865 VAUGHN, PINKERTON R., Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., USS Mississippi, Port Hudson, 14 March 1863 |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |