SPROWLE, DAVID
Rank and Organization: Orderly Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps. Born: 1811,
Lisbon, N.Y. Accredited To: New York. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864.
Citation:
On board the U.S.S. Richmond 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, Orderly Sgt. Sprowle inspired the men
of the marine guard and directed a division of great guns throughout the furious 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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