Adam Weissel

Ship's Cook · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

26 August 1881 · Place not recorded

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Peacetime and other actions
Home state: New York
Action: Adam Weissel, 26 August 1881

The citation

Official citation

For jumping overboard from the U.S. Training Ship Minnesota, at Newport, R.l., 26 August 1881, and sustaining until picked up by a boat from the ship, C. Lorenze, captain of the forecastle, who had fallen overboard.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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