WILSON BROWN MEDAL OF HONOR WAR MEMORIAL GRAVESTONE
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Medal of Honor Grave Stones
Access: Cemetery
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: CAJUN SCRAMBLER
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
Landsman Brown’s official Medal of Honor citation reads:
On board the flagship U.S.S. Hartford during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram CSS Tennessee (1863) in Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864. Knocked unconscious into the hold of the ship when an enemy shellburst fatally wounded a man on the ladder above him, Brown, upon regaining consciousness, promptly returned to the shell whip on the berth deck and zealously continued to perform his duties although 4 of the 6 men at this station had been either killed or wounded by the enemy’s terrific fire.
LANDSMAN WAR A MILITARY RANK GIVEN TO NAVAL RECRUITS.
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