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Civil War
Robert Jordan
Coxswain · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
14 April 1863 · USS Minnesota
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- USS Minnesota
The citation
Official citation
Attached to the U.S.S. Minnesota and temporarily serving on the U.S.S. Mount Washington, during action against the enemy in the Nansemond River, 14 April 1863. When the Mount Washington drifted against the bank following several successive hits which struck her boilers and stopped her engines, Jordan boarded the stricken vessel and, for 6 hours as fierce artillery and musketry continued to rake her decks, calmly assisted in manning a 12-pound howitzer which had been mounted on the open hurricane deck.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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