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Peacetime and interim
John Smith
Seaman · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
19 September 1880 · USS Shenandoah
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Peacetime and other actions
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- USS Shenandoah
The citation
Official citation
For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Shenandoah, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 19 September 1880, and rescuing from drowning James Grady, first class fireman.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.