Įdwards died on December 27, 1902, at age 70 or 71 and was buried in Cranston, Rhode Island. Wounded when an enemy shell struck, Edwards refused to go below for aid and, as heavy return fire continued to strike his vessel, took the place of the first captain and carried out his duties during the prolonged action which resulted in the capture of the prize ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan. Finally, I will briefly look at how the decentralized meth-ods of the Civil War morphed into the centralized Office of Naval Intelli-gence (ONI) in 1882 and address the impact that centralization had on the US Navy. Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864. Įdwards's official Medal of Honor citation reads:Īs second captain of a gun on board the U.S.S. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor four months later, on December 31, 1864. Refusing to leave his post, he instead took over for the first captain and continued to man the gun for the remainder of the battle. At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, Lackawanna engaged the CSS Tennessee at close range and Edwards, acting as second captain of an artillery gun, was severely wounded in the face and arm by flying debris. He served during the Civil War as a captain of the top on the USS Lackawanna. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay.īorn in 1831 in Providence, Rhode Island, Edwards was still living in that city when he joined the Navy. John Edwards (1831 – December 27, 1902) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S.
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