Patrick Dougherty

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Landsman Patrick Dougherty, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in action, serving as a landsman on board the U.S.S. Lackawanna, at Mobile Bay, Alabama, 5 August 1864. Landsman Dougherty acted gallantly without orders when the powder box at his gun was disabled under the heavy enemy fire, and maintained a supply of powder throughout the prolonged action. Dougherty also aided in the attacks on Fort Morgan and in the capture of the prize ram Tennessee.