Landsman Robert Henry King - Albany Rural Cemetery, NY
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N 42° 42.487 W 073° 43.908
18T E 603857 N 4729182
Medal of Honor recipient from the American Civil War (Grand Army of the Republic). Note the anchor depicted on the Medal of Honor sculpted on the headstone (engraving no longer legible)
Waymark Code: WMH908
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/08/2013
Views: 9
Rank and organization: Landsman, U.S. Navy. Place: Plymouth, N.C. Born: 1845, New York. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864. Citation: King served on board the U.S. Picket Boat No. 1, in action, 27 October 1864, against the Confederate ram, Albemarle, which had res1sted repeated attacks by our steamers and had kept a large force of vessels employed in watching her. The picket boat, equipped with a spar torpedo, succeeded in passing the enemy pickets within 20 yards without being discovered and then made for the Albemarle under a full head of steam. Immediately taken under fire by the ram, the small boat plunged on, jumped the log boom which encircled the target and exploded its torpedo under the port bow of the ram. The picket boat was destroyed by enemy fire and almost the entire crew taken prisoner or lost.
Armed Service: Navy
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