. 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 . are other cases of naval men having been awarded the Medal of Honor which are notmentioned in Deeds of Valor. This is due to the fact that the personnel of the navy becamescattered so far and wide over the world after the War of the Rebellion that all effort to reachsome of the rewarded men proved futile. Among t
. 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 . are other cases of naval men having been awarded the Medal of Honor which are notmentioned in Deeds of Valor. This is due to the fact that the personnel of the navy becamescattered so far and wide over the world after the War of the Rebellion that all effort to reachsome of the rewarded men proved futile. Among the instances of great heroism on board sliipmust be included those of saving life at sea. These instances, though most heroic in themselves,do not properly come within the scope of Deeds of Valor, as they did not occur in battle, but,inasmuch as they were rewarded with the Medal of Honor, they are recorded on the followingfour ])ages. Under varying conditions men found themselves struggling in the water in a desperate attemptto save themselves from drowning, and they would have perished but for the undaunted courageof shipmates, who jumped overboard and at the great risk of their own lives rescued tlie unfor-tunate men from watery graves. 97 — HEROIC INSTANCES OF LIFE-SAVING. T JAMES CAREY, Seaman, U. S. S. Huron. Boni iuIreland in 1S47, <HERE were actions of bravery performed intime of peace by men of the navy which se-cured for them the well-deserved Medal of April 12, 1872, Commodore A. F. Grossmanand a number of men of the U. S. S. Kansas weredrowned near Graytown, Nicaragua, on which oc-casion three men. Boatswains Mate John ONeil,Seamen Austin Denham and Richard Pile, dis-played such extraordinary coolness and braverythat the Medal of Honor was deservedly bestowedon them. There are many cases where men of the UnitedStates ships endangered their lives in saving thoseof others. In every instance known to the depart-ment these men were awarded the Medal of Hono
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