b. 1832 Germany. d. ?
DATE OF MOH ACTION: 05/08/1864 Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, Alabama.
Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient. He was born in Germany and entered the Union Navy at New York, New York. He served as a Quartermaster.
MOH CITATION:
As landsman and lookout on board the U.S.S. Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Wells performed his duties with skill and courage throughout a furious two-hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.
BURIAL LOCATION: UNKNOWN.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.