George Low

Seaman · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

15 February 1881 · USS Tennessee

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Peacetime and other actions
Home state: New York
Action: USS Tennessee

The citation

Official citation

For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Tennessee at New Orleans, La., 15 February 1881, and sustaining, until picked up by a boat's crew, N. P. Petersen, gunner's mate, who had fallen overboard.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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