On August 5, 1864, during the Battle of Mobile Bay, Admiral Farragut led a squadron of eighteen Union ships, including the Hartford, into the Confederate-held Mobile Bay. He was assigned as a landsman to the USS Hartford, the flagship of Rear Admiral David Farragut's West Gulf Blockading Squadron. Noble braved the enemy fire which was said by the admiral to be "one of the most galling" he had ever seen and aided in rescuing from death 10 of the crew of the Tecumseh, thereby eliciting the admiration of both friend and foe.Brown was born in 1841 at Natchez, Mississippi, and enlisted in the Navy from along the Mississippi River in his home state. Monitor Tecumseh when that vessel was struck by a torpedo in passing enemy forts in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Metacomet, Noble served among the boat's crew which went to the rescue of the U.S. Noble's official Medal of Honor citation reads:Īs landsman on board the U.S.S. Donnelly, Captain of the Forecastle John Harris, and Seaman Henry Johnson.
Five other members of the boat crew also received the medal: Seaman James Avery, Quarter Gunner Charles Baker, Ordinary Seaman John C. For this action, Noble was awarded the Medal of Honor a year and a half later, on January 15, 1866. Despite intense fire, the boat crew was able to pull ten Tecumseh men from the water. At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, he was among the crew of a small boat sent from Metacomet to rescue survivors of the USS Tecumseh, which had been sunk by a naval mine (then known as a "torpedo").
He served during the Civil War as a landsman on the USS Metacomet. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay.īorn in 1838 in Breathitt County, Kentucky, Noble was a Confederate prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois when he joined the Navy. Childers Cemetery, Gilmore, Wolfe County, Kentuckyĭaniel Noble (1838–1903) was a Confederate prisoner at Camp Douglas before becoming a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S.
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