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Civil War
William Densmore
Chief Boatswain's Mate · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
5 August 1864 · USS Richmond
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Civil War
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- USS Richmond
The citation
Official citation
As captain of a gun on board the U.S.S. Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Densmore fought his gun with skill and courage throughout a furious 2-hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.
