
U.S. Navy
Low, George
Year of Action1881
Unit/CommandUSS Tennessee
Citation
For jumping overboard from the USS Tennessee at New Orleans, La., 15 February 1881, and sustaining, until picked up by a boat’s crew, N. P. Petersen, gunner’s mate, who had fallen overboard.
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