TODD, SAMUEL
Rank and Organization: Quartermaster, U.S. Navy. Born: 1815, Portsmouth,
N.H. Accredited To: New Hampshire. G. O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864.
Citation:
Stationed at the conn on board the U.S.S. Brooklyn during action against rebel forts
and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite severe
damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks from
stem to stern, Todd performed his duties with outstanding skill and courage throughout the
furious battle which resulted in the surrender of the prize rebel ram Tennessee and in the
damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.
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