Letter to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles recommending a Congressional Medal of Honor for Coal Heaver Richard D. Dunphy

Handwritten letter describing Dunphy's vallant conduct on the USS Hartford during the Battle of Mobile Bay which resulted in the loss of his two arms.

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072)
Purchased from: Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, December 2015.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
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