First Medal: Civil War Second Medal: Interim 1866 - 1870

John Cooper

FIRST AWARD On board the U.S.S. Brooklyn during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee, in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.

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