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Image: Hugh Molloy (framed)

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Description: Hugh Molloy, Ordinary Seaman, United States Navy. Post-Civil War photograph, published in Deeds of Valor, Volume II, page 63, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. Ordinary Seaman Molloy was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in serving a gun from an exposed position on the forecastle of USS Fort Hindman during an engagement with an enemy battery near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, on 2 March 1864. Note: The birth date given on this image differs from that published in the book Medal of Honor -- The Navy, which gives Molloy's date of birth as 1832.
Title: Hugh Molloy (framed)
Credit: Naval Historical Center Online Library, Photo #: NH 79921
Permission: Public domain
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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