John Ditzenback

Quartermaster · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

6 December 1864 · Place not recorded

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Civil War
Home state: Indiana
Action: John Ditzenback, 6 December 1864

The citation

Official citation

Served on board the U.S. Monitor Neosho during the engagement with enemy batteries at Bells Mills, Cumberland River, near Nashville, Tenn., 6 December 1864. Carrying out his duties courageously during the engagement, Ditzenback gallantly left the pilot house after the flag and signal staffs of that vessel had been shot away and, taking the flag which was drooping over the wheelhouse, made it fast to the stump of the highest mast remaining, although the ship was still under a heavy fire from the enemy.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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