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Medal of Honor Monday: The Sailors Who Saved USS Lehigh
Nov. 16, 2020 | BY Katie Lange , DOD News
This week we're honoring not one, but five Civil War sailors who helped free their grounded warship during the Battle of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina in 1863. Gunner's Mate George Leland, Coxswain Thomas Irving, Seaman Horatio Young, Landsman William Williams and Landsman Frank Gile all played an integral role in the mission. For their efforts, they earned the newly created Medal of Honor.
On Nov. 16, 1863, all five men were serving on the USS Lehigh, a Union monitor ship that came to the aid of soldiers on Morris Island, South Carolina. The soldiers were being fired on from long range by Confederate troops at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina.
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Features/Story/Article/2411722/medal-of-honor-monday-the-sailors-who-saved-uss-lehigh/ (https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Features/Story/Article/2411722/medal-of-honor-monday-the-sailors-who-saved-uss-lehigh/)
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Landsman William Williams and Landsman Frank Gile
I may be wrong,but I believe those "Landsmen" would be identified today as "US Marines".
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I may be wrong,but I believe those "Landsmen" would be identified today as "US Marines".
Could be. US Marines and former Marines (CSMC) fought it out at Drewry's Bluff, although the US Marines never made it off the Galena.