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Michael Cassidy, Medal of Honor

Looking for suggested reading or information on the following incident. "Served on board the U.S.S. Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee, in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Displaying great coolness and exemplary behavior as first sponger of a gun, Cassidy, by his coolness under fire, received the applause of his officers and the gun crew throughout the action which resulted in the capture of the prize ram Tennessee and in the destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan."