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Civil War
Michael Cassidy
Landsman · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
5 August 1864 · USS Lackawanna
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- USS Lackawanna
The citation
Official citation
Served on board the U.S.S. Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee, in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Displaying great coolness and exemplary behavior as first sponger of a gun, Cassidy, by his coolness under fire, received the applause of his officers and the guncrew throughout the action which resulted in the capture of the prize ram Tennessee and in the destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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