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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: July 17, 2010
Caption: CSS Albemarle Marker
Additional Description: Sign in the Museum-Awarded the Medal of Honor-MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION-HENRY WILKES Rank and organization: Landsman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1845, New York, N.Y. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864. Citation: Wilkes served on board U.S. Picket Boat No. 1 in action, 27 October 1864, against the Confederate Ram, Albemarle, which had resisted 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 them 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.
Submitted: December 30, 2012, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p230085
File Size: 0.171 Megabytes

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