Medal of Honor Recipient: Seaman Lewis A. Horton
Rank and organization: Seaman , U.S. Bristol Mass. Massachusetts 22 June 1865 .
Citation: Served on board the U.S.S. Rhode Island, which was engaged in saving the lives of the officers and crew of the Monitor,30 December 1862 . Participating in the
hazardous task of rescuing the officers and crew of the sinking Monitor,
Horton, after rescuing several of the men, became separated in a heavy gale
with other members of the cutter that had set out from the Rhode Island and
spent many hours in the small boat at the mercy of the weather and high seas
until finally picked up by a schooner 50 miles east of Cape Hatteras.
Citation: Served on board the U.S.S. Rhode Island, which was engaged in saving the lives of the officers and crew of the Monitor,
posted by Poison Pero | 3/12/2013
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