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Samuel Todd

Quartermaster
1815
Medal of Honor - Navy
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Quartermaster Samuel Todd served the U.S. Navy.

Service Record
U.S. Navy
Quartermaster
Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor
5 August 1864 · USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay · Quartermaster

Stationed at the conn on board the U.S.S. Brooklyn during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite severe damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks from stem to stern, Todd performed his duties with outstanding skill and courage throughout the furious battle which resulted in the surrender of the prize rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.

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Medal of Honor - Navy August 5, 1864 · USS Brooklyn, Mobile Bay · Quartermaster
Stationed at the conn on board the U.S.S. Brooklyn during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite severe damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks from stem to stern, Todd performed his duties with outstanding skill and courage throughout the furious battle which resulted in the surrender of the prize rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.
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U.S. Navy
Medal of Honor - Navy

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