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Peacetime and interim
Austin Denham
Seaman · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
12 April 1872 · Greytown, Nicaragua
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Peacetime and other actions
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- Greytown, Nicaragua
The citation
Official citation
On board the U.S.S. Kansas near Greytown, Nicaragua, 12 April 1872. Displaying great coolness and self-possession at the time Comdr. A. F. Crosman and others were drowned, Denham, by heroism and personal exertion, prevented greater loss of life.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.
