JONES, JOHN
Rank and Organization: Landsman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1837, Bridgeport, Conn.
Accredited To: New Hampshire, 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, Jones, 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 m 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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