WELLS, WILLIAM
Rank and Organization: Quartermaster, U.S. Navy. Born: 1832, Germany. Accredited
To: New York. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864.
Citation:
As landsman and lookout 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 the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Wells performed
his duties with skill and courage throughout a furious 2-hour 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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