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Civil War
Thomas Irving
Coxswain · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
16 November 1863 · USS Lehigh
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- USS Lehigh
The citation
Official citation
Served on board the U.S.S. Lehigh, Charleston Harbor, 16 November 1863, during the hazardous task of freeing the Lehigh, which had grounded, and was under heavy enemy fire from Fort Moultrie. Rowing the small boat which was used in the hazardous task of transferring hawsers from the Lehigh to the Nahant. Irving twice succeeded in making the trip, while under severe fire from the enemy, only to find that each had been in vain when the hawsers were cut by hostile fire and chaffing.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.
