JONES, WILLIAM
Rank and Organization: Captain of the Top, U.S. Navy. Born: 1831,
Philadelphia, Pa. Accredited To: Pennsylvania. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December
1864.
Citation:
As captain of a gun on board the U.S.S. Rlchmond during action against rebel forts and
gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite damage to his
ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Jones fought his
gun with skill and courage throughout the prolonged battle which resulted in the surrender
of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort
Morgan.
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