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U.S. Navy

William Lowell Hill

ConflictNoncombat

RankChief Boatswain's Mate

Year of Action1881

Unit/CommandU.S. Training Ship Minnesota,

BirthplaceBrooklyn, New York

Citation

Serving on board the U.S. Training Ship Minnesota at Newport, R.I., 22 June 1881, Hill jumped overboard and sustained William Mulcahy, third class boy, who had fallen overboard, until picked up by a steam launch.

Branch: U.S. Navy Conflict: Noncombat Year of Action: 1881

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Robert Graham (Hall, Frederick, reenlisted U.S. Marine Corps 1881)U.S. NavyConflict: Civil War

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