DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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Photo #: NH 105627
U.S. Navy Medal of Honor
Reverse of a Medal of Honor awarded to Ordinary Seaman Luke M.
Griswold, USN, of USS Rhode Island, for his work in rescuing
USS Monitor survivors on 30 December 1862, and subsequently
surviving in a small cutter when it was separated from the ship
by hazardous gale-wind seas.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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