HORTON, LEWIS A.
Rank and Organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1839, Bristol Mass. 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 task of
rescuing the officers and crew of the sinking Monitor, Horton, 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.
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