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NH 79921 Hugh Molloy, Ordinary Seaman, USN

Photo #: NH 79921 Hugh Molloy, Ordinary Seaman, USN
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Title: Hugh Molloy, Ordinary Seaman, USN
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Description: Photo #: NH 79921 Hugh Molloy, Ordinary Seaman, USN Post-Civil War photograph, published in Deeds of Valor, Volume II, page 63, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. Ordinary Seaman Molloy was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in serving a gun from an exposed position on the forecastle of USS Fort Hindman during an engagement with an enemy battery near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, on 2 March 1864. The birth date given on this image differs from that published in the book Medal of Honor The Navy, which gives Molloy's date of birth as 1832. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 79921
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