Michael Thornton

Seaman · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

26 August 1881 · Place not recorded

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Peacetime and other actions
Home state: Pennsylvania
Action: Michael Thornton, 26 August 1881

The citation

Official citation

For jumping overboard from the U.S. Tug Leyden, near Boston, Mass., 26 August 1881, and sustaining until picked up, Michael Drennan, landsman, who had jumped overboard while temporarily insane.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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