. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . 87 — TWO THOUSAND MILES IN A GIG. WILLIAM HALFORD. Cockswain U. S. S. August 18, 1841, in Gloucester-shire, Eng. Highest rank attained:Chief Guner, C VEN in times of profound national peace the sailor, when*— on his chosen element, is forever at war. In a momentsnotice an emergency, unexpected
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . 87 — TWO THOUSAND MILES IN A GIG. WILLIAM HALFORD. Cockswain U. S. S. August 18, 1841, in Gloucester-shire, Eng. Highest rank attained:Chief Guner, C VEN in times of profound national peace the sailor, when*— on his chosen element, is forever at war. In a momentsnotice an emergency, unexpected, incalculable, may ariseto put his courage, self-reliance, endurance and soundjudgment to a far severer test than the most distressingcircumstances in the midst of the fiercest battle on landcould possibly exact. It is for this reason that the historyof seafaring life records instances of individual heroismand devotion unequaled elsewhere. The following narration of William Halford, then acockswain on board the ill-fated II. S. S. Saginaw, will befound to offer a good illustration. During the year 1870 he was serving on board theSaginaw, as a cockswain of the gig. The ship had been en-gaged in surveying and deepening the entrance to thelagoon at the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The appropriation bei
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