Class Year
2015
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
10-2-2013
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
One morning as he was preparing the morning paper, Boston-based Washington dispatch examiner Joseph O’Hare’s eye caught a dispatch noting the Congressional Medal of Honor was being awarded to a Lewis Horton for courageous acts while rescuing crew members of the U.S.S. Monitor off the coast of Cape Hatteras in 1862. O’Hare was particularly struck by the name of the man, since a double arm amputee veteran named Lewis Augustine Horton worked at the local customs house. O’Hare related the dispatch to Horton, noting the similar name, to which Horton reportedly responded in genuine surprise, “By Jove! It may be for me. I was one of the volunteers that went out in the Rhode Island’s cutter and saved the crew of the Monitor.” [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Johnson, S. Marianne, "Tales from a Boston Customs House: Lewis Augustine Horton" (2013). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 14.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/14
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