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Civil War
Bartholomew Diggins
Ordinary Seaman · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
5 August 1864 · USS Hartford
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Maryland
- Action
- USS Hartford
The citation
Official citation
On board the flagship, U.S.S. Hartford, during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Diggins, as loader of a gun, remained steadfast at his post throughout the furious 2-hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.
