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Civil War
George W. Leland
Gunner's Mate · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
16 November 1863 · USS Lehigh
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- Georgia
- Action
- USS Lehigh
The citation
Official citation
Serving on board the U.S.S. Lehigh, Charleston Harbor, 16 November 1863, during the hazardous task, of freeing the Lehigh, which had grounded, and was under heavy enemy fire from Fort Moultrie. Rowing the small boat which was used in the hazardous task of transferring hawsers from the Lehigh to the Nahant, Leland twice succeeded in making the trip, only to find that each had been in vain when the hawsers were cut by enemy fire and chaffing.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.
