MOORE, WILLIAM
Rank and Organization: Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy. Born: 1834, Boston,
Mass. Accredited To: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 32, 16 April 1864.
Citation:
Serving as boatswain's mate on board the U.S.S. Benton during the attack on Haines
Bluff, Yazoo River, 27 December 1862. Wounded during the hour-and-a-half engagement in
which the enemy had the dead range of the vessel and was punishing her with heavy fire,
Moore served courageously in carrying lines to the shore until the Benton was ordered to
withdraw.
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