. 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 . rst sponger. As he fell he dropped his sponge out of the port into the fore-castle. Hugh Molloy, seaman, who was one of the guns crew, saw the sponge fallout on the port and instantly jumped through the opening down on the forecastle,where, exposed to the severe fire of the enemy, he recovered the sponge and spon
. 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 . rst sponger. As he fell he dropped his sponge out of the port into the fore-castle. Hugh Molloy, seaman, who was one of the guns crew, saw the sponge fallout on the port and instantly jumped through the opening down on the forecastle,where, exposed to the severe fire of the enemy, he recovered the sponge and spongedand loaded the gun from the outside, while shell and musket-bullets from the sharp-shooters struck the ship all around him. To all on board it looked as if Molloywould never regain the protection of the ship, but, strange as it may seem, he wasnot struck by the rebels, and as soon as he had the gun loaded he crawled throughthe port into the ship again. Just after Molloy had regained the deck a rebel shell burst at the muzzle of oneof the Hindmans guns, setting fire to the tarred yarn of a cartridge, which had beenput into the gun preparatory to being rammed home. James K. L. Duncan, seaman,saw the tie burning and before the fire could eat its way through the covering of the. Q < <m z<o z Q X QO a Q cr Hcr<o Ld XH — 55 — cartridge and explode in the gun he sprang forward, seized the cartridge with hisbare hand, by its blazing end, and exerting all his strength he wrenched it from themuzzle. Rushing to the port with the burning cartridge, he threw it out. Hardlyhad he loosed his hold when the cartridge, still in the air, exploded, hurlingDuncan backward across the deck. His shipmates, however, caught him and pre-vented him from falling, but when he regained consciousness it seemed to him as ifall the sounds of conflict had ceased. In describing the situation Duncan says: When I regained consciousness after the explosion of the cartridge I lookedabout me in surp
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