Thomas Cripps
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
Died when: 66 years 9 days (792 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
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Thomas H.Cripps (November 29, 1840 – December 4, 1906) was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who became a U.S.Medal of Honor winner during the American Civil War.
While serving in the Union Navy as a quartermaster aboard the USS Richmond, he operated one of that's ship's guns under heavy enemy fire for two hours during the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama on August 5, 1864, helping to damage the CSS Tennessee and destroy artillery batteries of the Confederate States Army at Fort Morgan, even as the enemy's shell and shot damaged his ship and killed several of his fellow crewmen.
For those actions, he was awarded his nation's highest honor for bravery on December 31, 1864.
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