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Peacetime and interim

Hugh Miller

Boatswain's Mate · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

21 November 1885 · USS Quinnebaug

Branch
U.S. Navy
Era
Peacetime and other actions
Home state
Pennsylvania
Action
USS Quinnebaug

The citation

Official citation

For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Quinnebaug, at Alexandria, Egypt, on the morning of 21 November 1885 and assisting in saving a shipmate from drowning.

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