John McCarton

Ship's Printer · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

4 January 1882 · Place not recorded

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Peacetime and other actions
Home state: New York
Action: John McCarton, 4 January 1882

The citation

Official citation

For jumping overboard from the U.S. Training Ship New Hampshire off Coasters Harbor Island, near Newport, R.l., 4 January 1882, and endeavoring to rescue Jabez Smith, second class musician, from drowning.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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