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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: May 22, 2013
Caption: Luke Griswold-Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient grave marker
Additional Description: He is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Section A, grave 297---GPS Coordinates N42.1225 W72.5677. His Medal of Honor information and citation is: GRISWOLD, LUKE M. • Rank and organization: Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy • Accredited to: Massachusetts • G.O. No.: 59, 22 June 1865 Citation: Served on board the U.S.S. Rhode Island which was engaged in saving the lives of the officers and crew of the Monitor, 30 December 1862. Participating in the hazardous rescue of the officers and crew of the sinking Monitor, Griswold, after rescuing several of the men, became separated in a heavy gale with other members of the cutter that had set out from the Rhode Island, and spent many hours in the small boat at the mercy of the weather and high seas until finally picked up by a schooner 50 miles east of Cape Hatteras.
Submitted: August 10, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p393647
File Size: 3.975 Megabytes

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