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Civil War
Adam McCullock
Seaman · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
5 August 1864 · USS Lackawanna
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Maine
- Action
- USS Lackawanna
The citation
Official citation
On board the U.S.S. Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864. Wounded when an enemy shell struck, and ordered to go below, McCullock refused to leave his station and continued to perform his duties throughout the prolonged action which resulted in the capture of the prize ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of Fort Morgan.