b. 23/11/1834 Glasgow, Scotland. d. 22/11/1903 Glasgow, Scotland.
DATE OF MOH ACTION: 30/12/1862 off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient. He served in the Union Navy as a Captain of the Afterguard. He entered the service at Boston, Massachusetts. His citation reads “On board the USS Rhode Island which was engaged in saving the lives of the officers and crew of the Monitor, 30 December 1862. Participating in the hazardous rescue of the officers and crew of the sinking Monitor, Logan, after rescuing several of the men, became separated in a heavy gale with other members of the cutter that had set out from the Rhode Island, and spent many hours in the small boat at the mercy of the weather and high seas until finally picked up by a schooner 50 miles east of Cape Hatteras.”
MOH CITATION:
On board the U.S.S. Rhode Island which was engaged in saving the lives of the officers and crew of the Monitor, 30 December 1862. Participating in the hazardous rescue of the officers and crew of the sinking Monitor, Logan, after rescuing several of the men, became separated in a heavy gale with other members of the cutter that had set out from the Rhode Island, and spent many hours in the small boat at the mercy of the weather and high seas until finally picked up by a schooner 50 miles east of Cape Hatteras.
BURIAL LOCATION: ST KENTIGERN’S CEMETERY, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.
