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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: October 1, 2010
Caption: Sailors Home Cemetery Marker
Additional Description: MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION: GRIFFITHS, JOHN Rank and organization: Captain of the Forecastle, U.S. Navy. Born: 1835, Wales. Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 59, 22 June 1865. Citation: On board the U.S.S. Santiago de Cuba during the assault on Fort Fisher on 15 January 1865. As one of a boatcrew detailed to one of the generals on shore, Griffiths bravely entered the fort in the assault and accompanied his party in carrying dispatches at the height of the battle. He was one of 6 men who entered the fort in the assault from the fleet. He also served in the Union Army in the 20th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry.
Submitted: January 8, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p230859
File Size: 1.578 Megabytes

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