Louis Capet Shepard-Port Clinton, OH
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Don.Morfe
N 41° 30.666 W 082° 57.102
17T E 337129 N 4597335
Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient for action on board the USS Wabash in the assault of Fort Fisher, NC on January 15, 1865. He is buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Port Clinton, OH in Section F, Lot 10.
Waymark Code: WM10FKZ
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 04/29/2019
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He was born on September 2, 1841 in Ashtabula, OH and died on April 27, 1919 in Danbury, OH. His Medal of Honor information and citation is: SHEPARD, LOUIS C.
• Rank and organization: Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy
• Accredited to: Ohio
• G.O. No.: 59, 22 June 1865
Citation: Served as seaman on board the U.S.S. Wabash in the assault on Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865. Advancing gallantly through severe enemy fire while armed only with a revolver and cutlass which made it impossible to return the fire at that range, Shepard succeeded in reaching the angle of the fort and in going on, to be one of the few who entered the fort. When the rest of the body of men to his rear were forced to retreat under a devastating fire, he was forced to withdraw through lack of support and to seek the shelter of one of the mounds near the stockade from which point he succeeded in regaining the safety of his ship.
Armed Service: Navy
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