Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient. His true name was Lorenzo Deming. He was a Prisoner of War. He has a "In memory of" marker in Fairview Cemetery. He died in Salisbury Prison North Carolina which is now part of Salisbury National Cemetery. He is one of 11,700 unknowns buried in a long trench. He served as a Landsman in the Union Navy. His citation reads "Denning served on board the US Picket Boat No. 1 in action , 27 October 1864, against the Confederate ram Albemarle which had resisted repeated attacks by our steamers and had kept a large force of vessels employed in watching her. The picket boat, equipped with a spar torpedo, succeeded in passing the enemy pickets within 20 yards without being discoverd and then made for the Albemarle under a full head of steam. Immediately taken under fire by the ram, the small boat plunged on, jumped the log boom which encircled the target and exploded its torpedo under the port bow of the ram. The picket boat was destroyed by enemy fire and almost the entire crew was taken prisoner or lost."
Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient. His true name was Lorenzo Deming. He was a Prisoner of War. He has a "In memory of" marker in Fairview Cemetery. He died in Salisbury Prison North Carolina which is now part of Salisbury National Cemetery. He is one of 11,700 unknowns buried in a long trench. He served as a Landsman in the Union Navy. His citation reads "Denning served on board the US Picket Boat No. 1 in action , 27 October 1864, against the Confederate ram Albemarle which had resisted repeated attacks by our steamers and had kept a large force of vessels employed in watching her. The picket boat, equipped with a spar torpedo, succeeded in passing the enemy pickets within 20 yards without being discoverd and then made for the Albemarle under a full head of steam. Immediately taken under fire by the ram, the small boat plunged on, jumped the log boom which encircled the target and exploded its torpedo under the port bow of the ram. The picket boat was destroyed by enemy fire and almost the entire crew was taken prisoner or lost."
Bio by: Don Morfe
Inscription
Lorenzo Deming
Born Sept 6 1848
Joined U,S. Navy,
Sept. 8, 1864
Captured at Plymouth, N.C.
at the Destruction of
The Rebel
Iron Clad Albermarle
Nov. 27, 1864
and Died in Rebel Prison
at Salisbury, N.C.
Feb. 5, 1865
"He Died at his Post"
Gravesite Details
Brownstone
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