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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 105503
U.S. Navy Medal of Honor
Reverse of a Medal of Honor awarded to Ordinary Seaman Samuel
W. Davis, USN, for "extreme courage and vigilance"
while acting as a look-out for torpedoes and other obstructions
on board USS Brooklyn during the Battle of Mobile Bay,
Alabama, 5 August 1864.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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